Subject: ***address-loop-or-duplicate*** (repost)

From: Don Hayward <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 10:53:29 -0400

This is a repost.  I've received no response, and we had trouble with our 
newsfeed, so I'm not sure it made it out.  Apologies if you've seen it 
before.

I have an address list made up entirely of people in the local domain.  It
is my understanding that I need use only the userid of each party in the
list.  This works, mostly.  When I mail to the list, three of the
addresses in it fail and the MAILER_DAEMON mail failed message lists the 
failed addresses in this form: 

<uid@***address-loop-or-duplicate***> ... illegal character in hostname

These userids are 3, 4, and 5 characters long, and not together in the 
list, and they are not duplicates.

How can this be corrected?

Thanks.

don

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 09:14:51 -0700 (PDT)

This should mean that there is a address loop in your address book.  For
example, list1 contains list2 which contains list3 which contains list1...

If you'd like to send a copy of your address book to me I'd be happy to
take a look.  Tell me which list you're having trouble with, too.

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle