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

[Mike Lehman]

Stuart,
I believe this is a general problem right now with all the chambana.net 
email 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?
>
>
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> 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
>
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> 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 -----
>
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> From: Stuart Levy <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
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> 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
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> 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.
>
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