rwhite@nu3b2.UUCP (Robert C. White Jr.) (07/08/87)
My mail program "mailx" has a option to produce internet addresses from the "regular" addressing system useing "!". I am by no means an expert, but all this "conversion" seems to do is hack off the last system name and addressed account name of the end of sys1!sys2!sys3!sys12!othersys!whathaveyou!thatguy [or whatever] and give me <thatguy@whathaveyou> as the return address. Is this enough for the "internet" mail sites to deliver these messages to the correct systems? My system is not actually able to deliver messages with these addresses but it does have hooks to run other programs from inside the "mailx" system... Is there a mailer program I can/should be running? The reason I ask is that If someone sends me mail from usenet I get a Reply-To: string that starts at my backbone site and goes from there. I get: sdcsvax!... instead of: man!jack!ucsdhub!sdcsvax!... I need the latter, or some solution. According to my manual you can only set an alias for the last recepiant, not an intervening machine name. Any help would help! Robert. Disclaimer: My mind is so fragmented by random excursions into a wilderness of abstractions and incipient ideas that the practical purposes of the moment are often submerged in my consciousness and I don't know what I'm doing. [my employers certainly have no idea]