hill@nicmad.UUCP (Ray Hill) (05/31/88)
What's the correct mail path to get to "expo" from the UUCP domain?
Since there is not any map entry available for "expo.lcs.mit.edu". (there isn't
even an entry for the ".lcs.mit.edu" domain) I assumed that "mit-eddie" would
be able to find "expo". I was wrong.
This is the address I sent my request for bug fixes to:
"uwvax!ll-xn!mit-eddie!expo!xstuff"
This is what I got back:
----- failed mail starts here -----
From uwvax!ll-xn!mit-eddie!uucp Sun May 29 22:33:24 1988
Received: by nicmad.UUCP (5.51/5.17)
id AA07373; Sun, 29 May 88 22:33:21 CDT
Received: from ll-xn.UUCP by spool.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 26 May 88 09:58:41 CDT
Received: by XN.LL.MIT.EDU; Thu, 26 May 88 10:52:18 EDT
Posted-Date: 26 May 88 10:51:10 EDT (Thu)
Date: 26 May 88 10:51:10 EDT (Thu)
From: uwvax!EDDIE.MIT.EDU!ll-xn!MAILER-DAEMON
Subject: failed mail
To: nicmad!hill
Message-Id: <8805261051.AA10081@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
======= command failed =======
COMMAND: /usr/bin/uux -gC '-all-xn!uwvax!nicmad!hill' -r - expo!rmail '(xstuff)'
======= standard error follows =======
bad system name: expo
uux failed. code 68
======= text of message follows =======
>From ll-xn!uwvax!nicmad!hill
Received: by EDDIE.MIT.EDU with UUCP with smail2.5 with sendmail-5.45/4.7 id <AA10048@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>; Thu, 26 May 88 10:50:54 EDT
Received: by XN.LL.MIT.EDU; Thu, 26 May 88 10:44:56 EDT
Posted-Date: Thu, 26 May 88 09:19:06 CDT
Received: from nicmad.UUCP by spool.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 26 May 88 09:38:27 CDT
Received: by nicmad.UUCP (5.51/5.17)
id AA02668; Thu, 26 May 88 09:19:06 CDT
Date: Thu, 26 May 88 09:19:06 CDT
From: ll-xn!uwvax!nicmad!hill@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Ray Hill)
Message-Id: <8805261419.AA02668@nicmad.UUCP>
To: xstuff@expo.UUCP
Subject: send fixes 21 22 23 24 25
----- failed mail ends here -----
What is the correct mail address to use to get X11.2 bug patches?
Thanks.
Ray Hilljim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton) (06/02/88)
> What's the correct mail path to get to "expo" from the UUCP domain? That depends on your mailer. Many sites have configured their mailers to accept standard Internet addressing. Others simply forward all addresses of the format user@host.subdomain...domain to an Internet host that knows how to cope. > I assumed that "mit-eddie" would > be able to find "expo". I was wrong. That is because you gave it the wrong name. The name "expo" is just an abbreviation for expo.lcs.mit.edu. Because it isn't in the same domain as eddie.mit.edu (the Internet name for mit-eddie), the address ...!mit-eddie!expo!user did not make any sense to eddie's mailer. > This is the address I sent my request for bug fixes to: > "uwvax!ll-xn!mit-eddie!expo!xstuff" Try uwvax!ll-xn!mit-eddie!expo.lcs.mit.edu!xstuff instead. Jim Fulton MIT X Consortium