johnnyr@ihuxv.ATT.COM (John R. Rosenberg) (01/26/89)
I need to send mail to a machine on bitnet from my machine (which is UUCP). The machine name is IDUI1, located at the university of Idaho. Thanks in advance for a speedy reply. John Rosenberg ..!att!ihuxv!johnnyr
david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) (01/26/89)
Ok. This does it .. time for me to begin Commonly Asked Mail Questions: In article <3136@ihuxv.ATT.COM> johnnyr@ihuxv.ATT.COM (John R. Rosenberg) writes: >I need to send mail to a machine on bitnet >from my machine (which is UUCP). A: You route the mail through a UUCP-BITNET gateway. The best known such gateway is psuvax1.{uucp,bitnet,psu.edu}. You do this like: path!path!psuvax1!host.bitnet!user Where "path!path" is the path from your site to psuvax1. There are other gateways listed in the file d.Top which is posted occasionally in comp.mail.maps. If you use pathalias to generate a routing database for you, and have your mailer consult this database when sending out mail, then all you should have to do is use "host.bitnet!user" or "user@host.bitnet". Sorry John. But I've been meaning to start this file anyway and your question prompted me to do it. -- <-- David Herron; an MMDF guy <david@ms.uky.edu> <-- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <-- Now I know how Zonker felt when he graduated ... <-- Stop! Wait! I didn't mean to!
NU099138@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Tim McDonough) (01/28/89)
Personally I'd try:
..!uunet!node.BITNET!user
-OR-
..!psuvax1!node.BITNET!user
-Timwcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) (02/02/89)
In article <1785NU099138@NDSUVM1> NU099138@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Tim McDonough) writes: |Personally I'd try: | |..!uunet!node.BITNET!user this won't do much good... use ..!psuvax1!node.BITNET... or look in the maps, see who your nearest advertised .BITNET "domain" gateway is, and use that. uunet will just route to whichever's closest to it, not necessarily the same as the closest to you (i.e. most cost-efficient) Bill -- Bitnet: wcf@psuhcx.bitnet Bill Fenner | "You are the angel of Internet: wcf@hcx.psu.edu | death, and I am the UUCP: {gatech,rutgers}!psuvax1!psuhcx!wcf | dead man's son." Fido: Sysop at 1:129/87 (814/238 9633) \hogbbs!wcf | -- Pink Floyd