karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger) (06/18/88)
In article <3095@palo-alto.DEC.COM> vixie@palo-alto.DEC.COM (Paul Vixie) writes: >In article <1100@bellboy.UUCP> hack@bellboy.UUCP (Greg Hackney) writes: ># In article <585@cbnews.ATT.COM> mark@stargate.COM (Mark Horton) writes: ># > Mail into and out of AT&T through the "att" gateway will continue. ># > Comments? ># ># Only if it is from an AT&T site, or whose final destination ># is an AT&T site (from what I understand). The question I must ># ask myself is, do I want a connection bad enough to pay for the ># phone costs of passing email to AT&T employees, for their benefit. Exactly. We occasionally need to pass things to and from AT&T from within our company -- and will maintain a link for *locally (our machines) generated or terminated mail only* for just that purpose. >There are actually going to be three separate 'att' machines in three >different cities. And mail sent x!att!y will work, even if x and y >are both non-AT&T sites. I think AT&T's plan is basically to disallow >mail along x!att!another-att!yet-another-att!y, that is, they'd rather >not have their internal network used for non-AT&T traffic. I don't know..... that was not the impression I got from reading the recent posting here which came from ihnp4. Please, AT&T, correct me if I am wrong -- but I believe it was said that any mail which did not either (1) originate or (2) terminate at an AT&T site would be returned as undeliverable.... This is a *lot* different than what Paul has stated..... If I understood the posting correctly, any mail which was of a pass-through nature (regardless of the number of systems it passes through) would be returned. Would anyone like to clarify this? It would be most appreciated, as we (and many others) are preparing to handle the converse of what we believe you've said (ie: any mail originating or terminating at an AT&T site will be bounced by "outside AT&T" sites -- if you can't see it clear to handle our third-party email, we can't see it clear to handle yours). There has even been a public call for hacks or patches to sendmail and smail to do exactly that. We'd like to be fair -- but in the absense of further word from AT&T we'll have to assume what we believe to be the correct interpretation of their earlier message. -- Karl Denninger (ddsw1!karl) Data: (312) 566-8912, Voice: (312) 566-8910 Macro Computer Solutions, Inc. "Quality solutions at a fair price"