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Date:      Sat, 29 Aug 1998 01:21:08 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        "Don O'Neil" <don@whtech.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Weird sendmail/pop problem
Message-ID:  <19980829012108.51411@futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <199808281853.LAA28895@usr02.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 06:53:20PM %2B0000
References:  <000301bdd231$d6cafe60$0200010a@digerati.whtech.com> <199808281853.LAA28895@usr02.primenet.com>

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On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 06:53:20PM +0000, Terry Lambert woke me up to tell me:
> > I'm experiencing a weird sendmail problem.. Anyone have any clues where to
> > start looking for this?
> > 
> > Here goes:
> > 
> > I have a user on my box that is set up to forward mail to 2 people...
> > 
> > When I send mail using MS Outlook 98 through a pop3 connection the second
> > person in the .forward file gets the message but the first one doesnt.
> > 
> > When I go outside of my box and send mail to the user, then BOTH people in
> > the .forward file get the message...
> > 
> > I've checked the aliases db, any .forward files laying around on the
> > machine, and all the basic configs for pop3 and sendmail but have come up
> > empty handed...
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Where does POP3 come into this?
> 
> You can't send mail over a POP3 connection, you can only retrieve it;
> you use SMTP to *send* mail.

Before anyone else chimes in, there's some funky POP3 interface to send
mail to the server via it.
That said, it's still being DELIVERED through SMTP, so your point stands.
Here's my bet:
Try sending from the local box, not though POP3
mail -s 'test msg' forwarduser < /dev/null

See if that gets there (both theres).
Try (perhaps long shot, but *shrug*) killing sendmail and restarting it.

Other than that...
There's my $0.02 on it.


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