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Subject: "[" in mailing list makes entry loop.
From: Geoff Gibbs (ggibbshgmp.mrc.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 08:04:29 CST

I have just had a problem with an erroneous mailing list entry.

The list was an alias pointing to an entry of the form

listname :include:listfile,archivefile

The entry in listfile had a "[" in the username part, i.e.

 :
bjs[wsfyzpublic.bta.net.cn
bjswsfyzpublic.bta.net.cn
 :

The effect was that the message got stuck in the queue, appending to
the archive file each time round.

Mailq reported "(alias database unavailable)"

and showed an address of :-

"[wsfyzpublic.bta.net.cn ]"hgmp.mrc.ac.uk

Is this expected behaviour or should it be trapped?

Removing the erroneous entry from listfile soon cleared the problem.

All the best

Geoff

UK-Human Genome Mapping Project-Resource Centre,
Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SB, UK
Tel: +44 1223 494530 Fax: +44 1223 494512 E-mail: G.Gibbshgmp.mrc.ac.uk