[comp.os.vms] UNDELIVERABLE MESSAGES THAT ARE FALSE

Hampton@DOCKMASTER.ARPA ("David R. Hampton") (06/25/87)

["FEED ME!" --Audrey Two]

The "undeliverable mail" messages occur because of the way this mailing
list is set up at SRI.  When your message arrives, the mail system at
SRI attempts to deliver it.  It finds that the name you supplied,
INFO-VAX, is actually a list of many names at many hosts.  Soooooo, the
mail system sends out one copy of your message to every address on the
list.  The key is that your name still in the 'From' line.  This means
that all error messages are returned to you, not to SRI.  That is why
you receive "undeliverable mail" messages every time, and why I will
shortly be receiving several myself.

---David R. Hampton                     Hampton @ Dockmaster.ARPA