[toaster] weird thing happened

2003-06-27 Thread John Shireley
Hey all, I've experienced a weird mail anomaly that I was wondering if anyone else has seen yet? For reasons I can't explain, my boss wants us to do "lists" by creating a username (e.g. saleslist), and filling its .qmail file with |forwards to individual recipient's names. Yes, its stupid. In a

Re: [toaster] weird thing happened

2003-06-27 Thread Tom Collins
On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 06:49 AM, John Shireley wrote: Hey all, I've experienced a weird mail anomaly that I was wondering if anyone else has seen yet? For reasons I can't explain, my boss wants us to do "lists" by creating a username (e.g. saleslist), and filling its .qmail file with |forw

Re: [toaster] weird thing happened - forward kept forwarding

2003-06-27 Thread John Shireley
No, I meant the pipe symbol "|". I'm not using any of the virt stuff, its pretty much a straight /etc/passwd installation. Oddly enough I've been trying to duplicate this by just using my own address and can't seem to get it to do it again, whereas my original group of usernames received somethin

Re: [toaster] weird thing happened - forward kept forwarding

2003-06-27 Thread Tom Collins
On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 07:46 AM, John Shireley wrote: No, I meant the pipe symbol "|". I'm not using any of the virt stuff, its pretty much a straight /etc/passwd installation. Oddly enough I've been trying to duplicate this by just using my own address and can't seem to get it to do it ag

Re: [toaster] weird thing happened - forward kept forwarding

2003-06-27 Thread John Shireley
I understand that, but for some reason this is the way we've always done it. It works, so I never questioned the practice. Ok, testing this again, it seems like if I only have one address in there it only delivers the message once, correctly. But if I have more than one addy in there, the messag

Re: [toaster] weird thing happened - forward kept forwarding

2003-06-27 Thread Tom Collins
On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 09:52 AM, John Shireley wrote: I understand that, but for some reason this is the way we've always done it. It works, so I never questioned the practice. Ok, testing this again, it seems like if I only have one address in there it only delivers the message once, cor

Re: [toaster] weird thing happened - forward kept forwarding

2003-06-27 Thread John Shireley
I see what you're saying. Well, when I use an "&", I get an error message kicked back of "no user by that name". Also, I think I mentioned this before, but we are currently using the pipe "|" and its working with other usernames in their .qmail files for forwarding functions. On Fri, 2003-06-2