ag5@pucc-i (Henry C. Mensch) (09/22/84)
<Will this madness never end? Will the bug never die? Tune in next week . .>
Since I posted my request for UUCP/BITNET gateways some time
ago, I have accumulated some information, which is listed below:
Apparently, two gateway sites exist for this purpose. The
UUCP site at Penn State University (psuvax1) and another site
(wjh12) operate gateways. The impression I get is that one can
mail thru psuvax1 in the following manner:
. . . !psuvax1!bituser%bitsite.BITNET
The wjh12 site is just in the process of installing their
BITNET mailer. They have two possible formats for mailing;
you may want to try first
.. . !wjh12!BITSITE!bituser
Please notice that the BITNET sitename is REQUIRED to be in
upper case.
In a few weeks, you should be able to mail like the following:
. . . !wjh12!bituser@BITSITE.BITNET
Since the "@" often causes trouble with mailers which your
message may have to pass through, you can simply mail a letter to
. . . !wjh12!mailer, and include a "To: bituser@BITSITE.BITNET" in
the letter.
Until their mailer is functioning entirely (when you can
use the second and third formats), there will not be a return path
generated in the message sent to the bitnet user (i.e., there will
be no "Return-Path: <blah blah blah>" line.
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