mskucherawy@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Murray S. Kucherawy) (02/04/90)
I received a message from a user at AT&T, and my mailer doesn't
like the address he sent. Please send me a mail address in
INTERNET/ARPANET format (ie. user@site). His address, as it appeared
in his .signature is uunet!attcan!bob.
Thanks...
=========================== Murray S. Kucherawy ============================
E-Mail: mskucherawy@{ watmath | dahlia | crocus | trillium }.waterloo.edu
Faculty of Mathematics (Comp Sci), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
Gamesmaster/Postmaster, UW Computer Science Club (mkuch@watcsc.waterloo.edu)
System Manager, VAX/VMS Network, Board of Education, London, Ontariobob@attcan.UUCP (Bob Kyryliuk) (02/06/90)
In article <20520@watdragon.waterloo.edu> (Murray S. Kucherawy) writes: > I received a message from a user at AT&T, and my mailer doesn't > like the address he sent. Please send me a mail address in > INTERNET/ARPANET format (ie. user@site). His address, as it appeared > in his .signature is uunet!attcan!bob. > > =========================== Murray S. Kucherawy ============================ > E-Mail: mskucherawy@{ watmath | dahlia | crocus | trillium }.waterloo.edu Hi Murray, Since I was the one whom you were trying to send e-mail to, I thought that I'd follow-up your posting, as there may be others out there whose mailers don't like UUCP addresses like "uunet!attcan!bob" and who don't know how to get through (and someone will probably post a correction if I make any mistakes :-) If a UUCP host doesn't have an officially registered domain, then you can reach a user on that host, by simply tacking ".UUCP" on the end of the sitename, as long as you can reach a Smart Mailer, which will take care of forwarding it accordingly. Since watmath has a smart mailer, you should be able to just use the following path to get through: bob@attcan.UUCP If however, you were on a site that didn't have a mailer that could handle the ".UUCP" convention, then you could forward your mail to a site that does. In S/W Ontario, watmath and gpu are a few sites that do, and on the internet, uunet does as well. Hence, any of the following should work: bob%attcan.UUCP@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca bob%attcan.UUCP@watmath.waterloo.edu bob%attcan.UUCP@uunet.uu.net Another way of going through those same sites is by saying that the UUCP path (ie X!Y!Z) is "at" (ie @) the Smart Mailer Sitename, and any of the following should also work: attcan!bob@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca attcan!bob@watmath.waterloo.edu attcan!bob@uunet.uu.net Hope this helps. Regards, Bob -- Bob Kyryliuk PHONE: (416) 756-5183 Manager, Electronic Information Resources National Technical Support AT&T Mail: !bkyryliuk AT&T Canada Inc. UUCP:{att|uunet|utzoo}!attcan!bob
gamiddon@maytag.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) (02/06/90)
In article <20520@watdragon.waterloo.edu> mskucherawy@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Murray S. Kucherawy) writes: > I received a message from a user at AT&T, and my mailer doesn't > like the address he sent. Please send me a mail address in > INTERNET/ARPANET format (ie. user@site). His address, as it appeared > in his .signature is uunet!attcan!bob. This is surprising, since dahlia's mailer does understand how to send a message to uunet. -Guy Middleton, Math Faculty Postmaster, University of Waterloo gamiddleton@watmath.waterloo.edu or gamiddleton@watmath.uwaterloo.ca
bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) (02/07/90)
In article <1443@maytag.waterloo.edu> gamiddon@maytag.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) writes: |In article <20520@watdragon.waterloo.edu> mskucherawy@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Murray S. Kucherawy) writes: |> I received a message from a user at AT&T, and my mailer doesn't |> like the address he sent. Please send me a mail address in |> INTERNET/ARPANET format (ie. user@site). His address, as it appeared |> in his .signature is uunet!attcan!bob. | |This is surprising, since dahlia's mailer does understand how to send a |message to uunet. Indeed. I believe we need a fair bit more detail in order to diagnose the problem, such as what kind of system & O/S, the type of mailer, the error message in question, etc. A lot of general advice seems to have been given which may cause random problems, to wit, addresses with "%" will break in many mail transfer agents, and addresses containing both "!" and "@" are ambiguous in their interpretation. -- (__) Bruce Becker Toronto, Ont. w \@@/ Internet: bdb@becker.UUCP, bruce@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu `/v/-e BitNet: BECKER@HUMBER.BITNET _/ \_ Well I didn't want to mention it cause it's so silly, but you know how
jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens) (02/08/90)
In article <3569@becker.UUCP> bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) writes: > Indeed. I believe we need a fair bit more > detail in order to diagnose the problem, > such as what kind of system & O/S, the type > of mailer, the error message in question, > etc. Nope - the user should go see a consultant to figure out what the problem is. Our mailer generally works, and so it's either a user problem, or a local problem. No sense annoying ont.uucp about it more.
root@nebulus.UUCP (Dennis S. Breckenridge) (02/08/90)
In article <20629@watdragon.waterloo.edu> jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens) writes: > In article <3569@becker.UUCP> bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) writes: ... > is. Our mailer generally works, and so it's either a user problem, or > a local problem. No sense annoying ont.uucp about it more. Why not, the purpose of the net is to ask questions and get answers or have we lost focus on this. The process is to learn not to know! -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NAME: Dennis S. Breckenridge UUCP: dennis@nebulus EMACS: Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens) (02/09/90)
In article <1990Feb8.151013.14797@nebulus.UUCP> root@nebulus.UUCP (Dennis S. Breckenridge) writes: >In article <20629@watdragon.waterloo.edu> jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens) writes: >> is. Our mailer generally works, and so it's either a user problem, or >> a local problem. No sense annoying ont.uucp about it more. > >Why not, the purpose of the net is to ask questions and get answers or >have we lost focus on this. The process is to learn not to know! OK. The problem here was that the user was trying to mail using a bang path, is a csh user, and forgot to escape the bangs with \. This is a discussion for ont.uucp?
darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) (02/09/90)
In article <1990Feb8.151013.14797@nebulus.UUCP> root@nebulus.UUCP (Dennis S. Breckenridge) writes: >In article <20629@watdragon.waterloo.edu> jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens) writes: >> In article <3569@becker.UUCP> bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) writes: >... >> is. Our mailer generally works, and so it's either a user problem, or >> a local problem. No sense annoying ont.uucp about it more. > >Why not, the purpose of the net is to ask questions and get answers or >have we lost focus on this. The process is to learn not to know! >-- >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >NAME: Dennis S. Breckenridge UUCP: dennis@nebulus > EMACS: Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping! >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- And what the heck does this have to do with the address for AT&T??? -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain (darcy@druid) | Thank goodness we don't get all D'Arcy Cain Consulting | the government we pay for. West Hill, Ontario, Canada | (416) 281-6094 |