From: andrason@skiff.mitre.org (Jackie Andrason)
Subject: recipient not getting mail if typo before it
Followup-To: andrason@gateway.mitre.org 
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:35:53 GMT


This is a strange problem that we happened to figure out by
running several tests.  We have a mix of sun3 and sun4 machines,
running 4.1.1 & 4.0.3.  But the problem is alike on 4.1.1 OS
& 4.0.3.  3 machines are servers, the rest are all
clients of the servers, and one machine (gateway) is the main 
mail server.  All the clients and other servers mount /var/spool/mail
from gateway. I think the sendmail version is 5.61  Here's the
problem:

If I mail out a letter and one of the mailnames is wrong,
it "forgets" about all the mailnames after it, and doesn't
mail the mail to them.  I noticed that it sorts the to: people
alphabetically, so any names above the wrong one will get the
mail.  It will also give the mail error 550.  All that is on
a client.  If I do the exact same thing on one of the servers,
it will send it out to all legal addresses.  The clients &
servers are running the same sendmail, using the same sendmail.cf
(except for the main machine--gateway). 

Here is a sample from a client:

andrason@pluto.mitre.org.102:  Mail -v andrason
Subject: test from sun3
testing from pluto
gotta see if it's all of them or just sun4's
Cc: rhansen sallyt
andrason@pluto.mitre.org.103:  Trying 128.29.31.10...  connected.
220 gateway.mitre.org Sendmail 5.61/SMI-2.2 ready at Thu, 17 Sep 92
14:18:17 -0400
>HELO pluto.mitre.org
250 gateway.mitre.org Hello pluto.mitre.org, pleased to meet you
>>MAIL FROM:<andrason>
250 <andrason>... Sender ok
>>RCPT TO:<andrason>
250 <andrason>... Recipient ok
>>RCPT TO:<rhansen>
550 <rhansen>... User unknown

AND a sample from its server:

andrason@haven.mitre.org.102:  Mail -v andrason
Subject: test from haven
here too?
Cc: rhansen sallyt
andrason@haven.mitre.org.103:  andrason,rhansen,sallyt... Connecting
to gateway.mitre.org.ether...
220 gateway.mitre.org Sendmail 5.61/SMI-2.2 ready at Thu, 17 Sep 92
14:20:16 -0400
>>> HELO haven.mitre.org
250 gateway.mitre.org Hello haven.mitre.org, pleased to meet you
>>> MAIL From:<andrason@gateway.mitre.org>
250 <andrason@gateway.mitre.org>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:<sallyt>
250 <sallyt>... Recipient ok
>>> RCPT To:<rhansen>
550 <rhansen>... User unknown
rhansen... User unknown
>>> RCPT To:<andrason>
250 <andrason>... Recipient ok
>>> DATA
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>> .
250 Ok
>>> QUIT
221 gateway.mitre.org closing connection
sallyt,andrason... Sent
andrason,Postmaster... Connecting to gateway.mitre.org.ether...
220 gateway.mitre.org Sendmail 5.61/SMI-2.2 ready at Thu, 17 Sep 92
14:20:20 -0400
>>> HELO haven.mitre.org
250 gateway.mitre.org Hello haven.mitre.org, pleased to meet you
>>> MAIL From:<MAILER-DAEMON@gateway.mitre.org>
250 <MAILER-DAEMON@gateway.mitre.org>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:<Postmaster>
250 <Postmaster>... Recipient ok
>>> RCPT To:<andrason>
250 <andrason>... Recipient ok
>>> DATA
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>> .
250 Ok
>>> QUIT
221 gateway.mitre.org closing connection
Postmaster,andrason... Sent
 
Anyone know what is going on?  Is this a know bug for sendmail? 
Should I try a different sendmail?  
 
Thanks.
 
Jackie Andrason, Sys Admin
The MITRE Corp.
andrason@gateway.mitre.org