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From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@MIT.EDU>
To: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@gza.com>
Cc: ckclark@mit.edu, eichin@Athena.MIT.EDU (),
        charon-maintainers@Athena.MIT.EDU, sipb-staff@Athena.MIT.EDU,
        sipb-afsreq@Athena.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: mail aliases, project.*charon* volumes 
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 15 Jun 93 16:03:26 -0400.
             <9306152003.AA28571@pad-thai.aktis.com> 

>    Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 14:53:53 -0400
>    From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@MIT.EDU>
> 
>    I tried one of them, and it didn't work, so I assume that's not
>    implemented in the current ease-generated sendmail.cf file.  (Although
>    it lists the DISCUSS domain as local.)
> 
> Exactly what did you try?
> 
>   jik

I stand corrected.  It seems that I was making the false assumption
that because test-mtg.DISCUSS@charon didn't expand to anything, it
wouldn't go anywhere.  However, it does seem to work, since I sent mail
to the address and got a bounce saying that it couldn't exec
/usr/local/dsmail.  (I assume that the test meeting intentionally uses
/usr/local/dsmail, so that test versions of dsmail can be installed
there to test.)

There's still something I don't understand: why does sipb-staff-mtg
expand without a hostname, and the vi-mtg doesn't?  I see no differences:

; telnet charon 25
Trying...
Connected to charon.MIT.EDU.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 charon Applesauce! Sendmail 5.57/2.3JIK ready at Tue, 15 Jun 93 16:53:58 -0400
expn vi-mtg
250 <vi-mtg>
expn sipb-staff-mtg
250 <"|/usr/athena/bin/dsmail -d /usr/spool/discuss/sipb-staff"@charon.LOCAL>
expn vi-mtg@charon
250 <"|/usr/athena/bin/dsmail -d /usr/spool/discuss/vi"@charon.LOCAL>
quit
221 charon closing connection
Connection closed.

Yet:

charon# grep sipb-staff-mtg /etc/localusers /etc/aliases
/etc/localusers:sipb-staff-mtg
/etc/aliases:sipb-staff-mtg:"|/usr/athena/bin/dsmail -d /usr/spool/discuss/sipb-staff"@charon.LOCAL
charon# grep vi-mtg /etc/localusers /etc/aliases
/etc/localusers:vi-mtg
/etc/aliases:vi-mtg:"|/usr/athena/bin/dsmail -d /usr/spool/discuss/vi"@charon.LOCAL

What's happening here?

-Calvin