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Subject: Re: Tracking down a bad address
From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu>
Date: 28 Jan 1997 21:53:57 -0600
To: bill @ biome . bio . dfo . ca (Bill Silvert)
Cc: List-Managers @ GreatCircle . COM (List Managers)
In-reply-to: bill@biome.bio.dfo.ca's message of Mon, 27 Jan 1997 16:06:56 -0400 (AST)
References: <199701272007.QAA06192@biome.bio.dfo.ca>

>>>>> "BS" == Bill Silvert <bill@biome.bio.dfo.ca> writes:

BS> I'm being deluged with bounce messages from an address on one of my
BS> lists, and with hundreds of subscribers I am baffled on how to track
BS> down which is the bad address.

Ouch.  It can be a real pain to track these down.  You have few options:

Go through your mail logs and see what address is being delivered when your
mailer connects to upr2.clu.net. I don't know if Smail keeps good enough
logging information; Sendmail does.

See if clu.net has any aliases that might be on your list.  I don't see
any published aliases.

Find the MX hosts for every host on your list; one of them will have
upr2.clu.net as an MX.

Call clu.net, or email their technical contact.  (Get it from the InterNIC
whois database.)  Better speak Spanish; they're in Puerto Rico.

Grab that bounce prober that's been advertised on majordomo-users lately
and run it.  It will tell you for certain, at the cost of sending a
possibly annoying message to everyone on your list.

 - J<


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