The latest of the little I was able to figure out. ReDIF-perl does not seem to be to blame, at least not directly. Updating it triggered all sort of other updates, and despite reverting ReDIF-perl, emails are *not* going out. New registrants and email changes bounced hopping within our system. Emails are typically formatted like zimmermann@stlouisfed.org@mx1.stlouisfed.org but I have seen one split in two like this: christian.zimmermann@stls.frb.o@mx1.stlouisfed.org rg@mx1.stlouisfed.org which makes absolutely no sense. There must be some package that has started messing with those email addresses. From the list of updated packages, there is no obvious candidate. Still digging. And, no, Thomas I cannot give you access to the machine. Christian Zimmermann FIGUGEGL! Economic Research Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis P.O. Box 442 St. Louis MO 63166-0442 USA https://ideas.repec.org/zimm/ @CZimm_economist On Sun, 10 Apr 2016, Sune Karlsson wrote:
2) I notice today the ReDIF-perl was not installed on RAS. after installation though, emails have broken. the to field is malformed, for example:
The following message to <"Christian Zimmermann" <zimmermann@stlouisfed.org>@mx1.stlouisfed.org> was undeliverable.
returning to 2.70 fixed the problem, so it has nothing to do with any external perl module that refreshed during install. I suspect this has to do with the following in Parser.pm:
< 'remove_newline_from_values' => 0,
#SK 'remove_newline_from_values' => 0, Obsoleted by new Unicode processing, newlines are always removed
or at least that is all I can see.
There are many differences between 2.70 and 2.74. It's not clear to me that they should cause problems with sending e-mails. At least I have not experienced any problems.
Which process is sending the e-mail, where does it get the e-mail address? Perl module for sending e-mail or system call to an external process? I suppose an assumption of a newline (or white space) at the end of the e-mail address that no longer holds could cause problems when building a command line.
/Sune