essachs@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Ed Sachs) (01/07/89)
I am trying to figure out how to communicate via Email from here (AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL, on uucp) and my wife at University of Illinois at Chicago (on internet). We have electronic addresses which allow us to exchange mail, and I can send mail to my wife with delivery in 10 minutes or less, but mail the other way (UIC -> ATT-BL) takes overnight. Anyone out there know what is going on? Mail from here to UIC is addressed : arpa!uicvm.uic.edu!<user-id> and gets through quickly. Mail from UIC to here is addressed: <user-id>%ihlpb@research.att.com and takes overnight. (This is a copy of a posting to internal att newsgroups. For those of you at att, sorry if you see it twice, but the netnews software won't allow cross posting between att and external newsgroups.) -- Ed Sachs AT&T Bell Laboratories Naperville, IL att!ihlpb!essachs
msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) (01/07/89)
The reason that mail into ATT from Internet sites takes so long is
that research.att.com - the Internet mail gateway into ATT, is often
clogged and overloaded. Mail to ATT can take 24-48 hours on the
average to actually get into ATT.
Mark
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