[comp.mail.sendmail] Bouncing Messages to Mailing Lists

dglo@ADS.COM (Dave Glowacki) (09/07/90)

We have a bunch of local mailing lists set up in 'aliases', each with
four entries like these (for the 'test-mail' mailing list):

test-mail: post-test-mail@ads.com
post-test-mail: :include:/usr/local/lib/mail/test-mail
test-mail-request: dglo
owner-test-mail: dglo

All the mailing lists reside on one machine, so mail can be sent to
a mailing list from any machine, but it is delivered from only one
machine.

As long as every address is valid, things work OK.  If any of the
addresses isn't deliverable, (like when somebody leaves the company
and their login disappears but a mailing list hasn't been updated to
delete them) one of two things happens:
1) If the mail is sent from 'ads.com', all valid addresses receive
   the message and the sender gets a 'bounced mail' message.
2) From any other machine, the sender gets a 'bounced mail' message
   but no messages are delivered to the valid addresses.

Any idea how I can get sendmail to deliver to the valid addresses
in case (2)?  We're running 5.64 with pretty close to the delivered
Berkeley cf file.
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Dave Glowacki          dglo@ads.com          Advanced Decision Systems