abed@venus.wustl.edu (Abed Hammoud) (12/03/90)
Thanks to all the people who responded to my inquiry about sending mail to the UK. The one I used and it worked was mail username@machinename.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk again thanks a million.... -------------------------------------------------------------- | Abed M. Hammoud abed@saturn.wustl.edu| | Washington University. office:(314)726-7547 | | Electronic Systems & Signals Research Laboratory. | | Dept. of Electrical/Biomedical Engineering. | | St.Louis Mo U.S.A | --------------------------------------------------------------
tjo@its.bt.co.uk (Tim Oldham) (12/04/90)
In article <1990Dec2.214425.20941@cec1.wustl.edu> abed@venus.wustl.edu (Abed Hammoud) writes: > > Thanks to all the people who responded to my inquiry about > sending mail to the UK. The one I used and it worked was > > mail username@machinename.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Please note that you may *not* use this addressing for sending to UK commercial sites ie sites with address sitename.co.uk. The nsfnet relay is funded purely for use by academic sites ie sites with address sitename.ac.uk. Alternative addressing for those people that have trouble with foo@sitename.co.uk is via uunet.uu.net or ukc.ac.uk. Tim. -- Tim Oldham, BT Applied Systems. tjo@its.bt.co.uk or ...uunet!ukc!its!tjo Well, you'd have a corporate siege mentality, too.
Andy.Linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andy Linton) (12/05/90)
In article <5M?^&W+@uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> tjo@its.bt.co.uk (Tim Oldham) writes: >In article <1990Dec2.214425.20941@cec1.wustl.edu> abed@venus.wustl.edu (Abed Hammoud) writes: >> >> Thanks to all the people who responded to my inquiry about >> sending mail to the UK. The one I used and it worked was >> >> mail username@machinename.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk > >Please note that you may *not* use this addressing for sending to >UK commercial sites ie sites with address sitename.co.uk. The >nsfnet relay is funded purely for use by academic sites ie sites >with address sitename.ac.uk. Alternative addressing for those people >that have trouble with foo@sitename.co.uk is via uunet.uu.net >or ukc.ac.uk. Well I think you're both doing the wrong thing - I mailed Abed about this and although I don't know which UK Academic site he was trying to get to, I do know that they should be registered in the DNS - most are. I also checked the names of some UK sites on his DNS server and the correct MX's were there. Perhaps someone at nsf.ac.uk or ukc.ac.uk could comment on whether all hosts in the UK NRS (name database) have MX's in the DNS. Instead of propagating these Kludges to get mail to the UK the proper thing to be doing is for people who have problems getting mail to the UK to complain loudly to their postmaster. If it doesn't work something is broken either in the local site's mailer or the relevant entry hasn't been inserted in the DNS. It seems likely that sites in the UK will soon be connected properly to the Internet and these kludges if perpetuated will make routing of mail to those sites inefficient. Please let's not get into source routes - fix the broken parts of the system instead.