stevela@beach.csulb.edu (Steve La) (10/18/90)
Hello Networkers, How can I send a mail message from an Internet node to a user with an UUCP mail address? Help!!! I want to send a mail message to "Darek@microsoft.UUCP". What should I type in the "To:" prompt? Thanks in advance. -Steve SteveLa@csulb.edu
psurge@cs.utexas.edu (Troy Carpenter) (10/18/90)
In article <1990Oct17.215404.16301@beach.csulb.edu>, stevela@beach.csulb.edu (Steve La) writes: > Hello Networkers, > How can I send a mail message from an Internet node to a user with an UUCP mail address? Help!!! > I want to send a mail message to "Darek@microsoft.UUCP". What should I type in the "To:" prompt? > Thanks in advance. > > -Steve > > SteveLa@csulb.edu DId you try sending to Darek@microsoft.UUCP ? I had to send stuff to a user the other day with a UUCP address and it worked fine. But the mail bounced when I replied to a message THEY sent...My mailer would not follow the path. It seems (at least on my Unix server) that when mail come FROM a UUCP address, it is expanded, and I have to send it back to "user@somewhere.UUCP". I don't know if this works for all mailers, but at least on the one I use I just send it to "user@somewhere.UUCP" and it works.
hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) (10/19/90)
In article <1990Oct17.215404.16301@beach.csulb.edu> stevela@beach.csulb.edu (Steve La) writes: >Hello Networkers, > How can I send a mail message from an Internet node to a user with an UUCP mail address? Help!!! > I want to send a mail message to "Darek@microsoft.UUCP". What should I type in the "To:" prompt? >Thanks in advance. In another reply someone mentioned that sending "user@host.uucp" always works fine for him. What works and what doesn't depends on your site's mail configuration. That usually depends on the competence and conscientiousness of your site admin. For the more brain-dead systems that are on the Internet, you can almost always get mail thru to a UUCP site by sending it to uunet. So for example, rewrite "darek@microsoft.uucp" as darek%microsoft.uucp@uunet.uu.net that will take care of 98% of the cases. The other poster also mentioned not being able to directly reply to mail that originated from a UUCP site. You can usually take paths of the form host-c!host-b!host-a!user and again send 'em thru uunet: user%host-a%host-b%host-c.uucp@uunet.uu.net Sorry for the non-ST related posting, but it seemed worth mentioning. (Ok, take off the net admin hat, put the ST hacker hat back on. Much better... }-) -- -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan one million data bits stored on a chip, one million bits per chip if one of those data bits happens to flip, one million data bits stored on the chip...