sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) (08/11/87)
This message is by way of thanks and appology to all the kind people who've been sending me mail (and part 10 of Hack). I'm using elm as a mailer and it doesn't seem to be able to reverse mail paths correctly. Every piece of mail I send gets returned to me. I'm not ignoring people; I just haven't figured out how to send you mail yet. I guess both elm and I don't know how to reverse mail paths ... Jan Harrington, sysop Scholastech Telecommunications seismo!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop
drc@dbase.UUCP (Dennis Cohen) (08/20/87)
Like he said, neither I nor my employer's software seem capable of reversing mail paths correctly. Everything I try to send in the way of mail comes back (usually without leaving the facility) as undeliverable. I have found that a reply to a news item has about a 40% chance of making it out, but a reply to mail is at 0%. Dennis Cohen Ashton-Tate Glendale Development Center dBASE Mac Development Team
sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) (08/22/87)
in article <226@dbase.UUCP>, drc@dbase.UUCP (Dennis Cohen) says: > > > Like he said, neither I nor my employer's software seem capable of reversing > mail paths correctly. Everything I try to send in the way of mail comes back > (usually without leaving the facility) as undeliverable. I have found that a > reply to a news item has about a 40% chance of making it out, but a reply to > mail is at 0%. > > Dennis Cohen > Ashton-Tate Glendale Development Center > dBASE Mac Development Team I've got the same problem, but I'm learning how to figure out correct mail paths myself, and then am forwarding mail manually. The strategy is this: First, I user a mailer (elm) to automatically attempt to send a dummy message. It almost always comes back, but at least the uucp response tells me the entire path by which the original message came. Then I look for a couple of gateway systems that I know how to reach (in my case, it's seismo and ihnp4). If those two systems are _anywhere_ in the path, then I can construct a valid mail path, since seismo and ihnp4 can accept addresses with non-! characters in them. Since I've been doing this, mail hasn't been coming back! I'm in trouble, however, if I end up with a path that hasn't come by either of those gateway systems .... Jan Harrington, sysop Scholastech Telecommunications seismo!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop