[UCIMC-Tech] flaky peace/peace-discuss at anti-war.net -- "User unknown in virtual alias table" errors

Sat Jan 16 19:15:54 CST 2010

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 07:09:48PM -0600, Chris Ritzo wrote:
> Stuart, Mike,
> Since Josh and I migrated the email and listservs to our new server we've
> had sporadic issues with "virtual aliases" relating to user accounts and
> lists at used to be on imsahp.chambana.net.
> 
> The previous server had a  very customized alias file which we attempted to
> replicate as much as possible prior to migration. We will get the alias
> added asap.

I suspect the alias is there, at least in some of the mail-handling paths,
since *some* mail is getting through promptly.  Or, perhaps, could there be
alternate routes for the mail (IP aliasing?  multiple MX records?) so that
some messages get handled by a machine which doesn't know the aliases,
while others are handled by a different machine which does?

> Chris
> 
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net>wrote:
> 
> > Stuart,
> > I believe this is a general problem right now with all the chambana.netemail lists. I had the same problem with a message sent to the
> > imc-web at ucimc.org list yesterday. It seems hit or miss or perhaps it's
> > more the case that it only affects those messages sent that use an alias,
> > rather than an absolute (or true or whatever the exact term is) address for
> > the list.
> > Mike Lehman
> >
> >
> > Stuart Levy wrote:
> >
> >> Hello imc-tech people,
> >>
> >> Several of us, in writing to peace at anti-war.net or
> >> peace-discuss at anti-war.net,
> >> have been getting sporadic errors like these.  The result is that messages
> >> are either
> >> delayed, or don't get through at all.  But *some* messages have been going
> >> through.
> >>
> >> This became troublesome to me today when I sent out (this morning)
> >> an announcement of this afternoon's demonstration, but even people who
> >> happened to be reading mail today didn't see it, since it bounced -- see
> >> below.
> >>
> >> I'd passed along a report of the same problem, from Barbara Kessel, a few
> >> days ago.
> >> Mort Brussel mentioned that he's been seeing similar troubles.
> >>
> >> Has anyone had a chance to look at it?  Are the mail server(s) in question
> >> logging anything when these "User unknown in virtual alias table" errors
> >> occur?
> >> Is there any way I can look at this? I don't have an account on
> >> mail.anti-war.net = 75.145.177.74 = mccoy.chambana.net.
> >>
> >> Do we need to move the anti-war.net mailing lists to other servers?
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Forwarded message from Mail Delivery Subsystem <
> >> MAILER-DAEMON at pop.ncsa.uiuc.edu> -----
> >>
> >> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:45:44 -0600
> >> From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON at pop.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
> >> Subject: Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours
> >> To: slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu
> >>
> >>    **********************************************
> >>    **      THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY      **
> >>    **  YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE  **
> >>    **********************************************
> >>
> >> The original message was received at Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:58:33 -0600
> >> from zanamavir.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.2.177]
> >>
> >>   ----- The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors -----
> >> <peace at anti-war.net>
> >>
> >>   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> >> ... while talking to mail.anti-war.net.:
> >>
> >>
> >>> RCPT To:<peace at anti-war.net>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> <<< 450 4.1.1 <peace at anti-war.net>: Recipient address rejected: User
> >> unknown in virtual alias table
> >> <peace at anti-war.net>... Deferred: 450 4.1.1 <peace at anti-war.net>:
> >> Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual alias table
> >> Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
> >> Will keep trying until message is 5 days old
> >>
> >>   ----- Original message follows -----
> >>
> >> X-Envelope-From: slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu
> >> X-Envelope-To: <peace at anti-war.net>
> >> Return-Path: <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
> >> Received: from zanamavir.ncsa.uiuc.edu (zanamavir.ncsa.uiuc.edu[141.142.2.177])
> >>        by pop.ncsa.uiuc.edu (8.11.7/8.11.7) with ESMTP id o0GFwXe07127
> >>        for <peace at anti-war.net>; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:58:33 -0600
> >> Received: from osage.ncsa.uiuc.edu (osage.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.2.56])
> >>        by zanamavir.ncsa.uiuc.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id
> >> o0GFwajl016480
> >>        for <peace at anti-war.net>; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:58:36 -0600
> >> Received: (from slevy at localhost)
> >>        by osage.ncsa.uiuc.edu (8.11.7/8.11.6) id o0GFwZ814377
> >>        for peace at anti-war.net; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:58:35 -0600
> >> From: Stuart Levy <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
> >> Message-Id: <201001161558.o0GFwZ814377 at osage.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
> >> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:58:35 -0600
> >> To: peace at anti-war.net
> >> Subject: yes, demonstration today -- Sat Jan 16th, 2-4pm, Main & Neil
> >> User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.0 3/4/06
> >> MIME-Version: 1.0
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> >> X-milter-cli-pbsmtp-Report: /usr/local/scripts/checkdracdip
> >>  __
> >>  dracd passed
> >> X-Null-Tag: b418932f2280b68b2f285cbdac183c54
> >> X-NCSA-MailScanner-Information: Please contact help at ncsa.uiuc.edu for
> >> more information, rimantadine.ncsa.uiuc.edu
> >> X-NCSA-MailScanner-ID: o0GFwajl016480
> >> X-NCSA-MailScanner: Found to be clean
> >>
> >> Yes, remembering Martin Luther King's denunciation of the war in Vietnam,
> >> AWARE will be demonstrating this Saturday afternoon in opposition
> >> to US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan (and where next?  Yemen, Iran,
> >> Venezuela?),
> >> and to the states of mind that see military force as the answer to
> >> any question.
> >>
> >> Please join us today -- Saturday, Jan. 16th, from 2-4pm, at the corner of
> >> Main and Neil in downtown Champaign.  Bring a sign, use one of ours,
> >> or just stand with us.
> >>
> >> ----- End forwarded message -----
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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