schaefer@ogicse.ogi.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) (09/24/90)
In article <142881@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) writes: } } You can ftp from cse.ogi.edu:pub/mush/mush-7.1.tar.Z -- the } same thing can be gotten from ucbvax. If you don't have ftp, } you can get it mailed to you in a 9-part tarmail archive. } Mail to schaefer@cse.ogi.edu and include a line that says: } } @MUSH } } An automatic filter mechanism will respond to your message. Some important notes: @OFF An @OFF line will disable the mail filter, if for some reason you want to include a line beginning with @MUSH in mail I actually see. The @MUSH syntax above is only partially correct. Please use @MUSH your-email-address-here There continue to be problems with OGI's mailer. In particular, there is no guarantee that addresses using mixed domain and uucp syntax will be delivered successfully. Case in point: I just received an @MUSH request from uwm!cs.utexas.edu!hpaustx!stuart ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This domain name causes confusion. OGI's sendmail translates this into stuart%hpaustx@cs.utexas.edu which cs.utexas.edu then returns as host unknown (because it doesn't understand a%b@c syntax). There is no way for me to prevent OGI's sendmail from perpetrating this nonsense, so I am completely unable to send mail to hpaustx. Sorry, Stuart, you'll have to get somebody with a working sendmail to send mush to you, unless you have another uucp connection besides cs.utexas.edu. -- Bart Schaefer schaefer@cse.ogi.edu
fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox) (09/26/90)
In article <12357@ogicse.ogi.edu> (Barton E. Schaefer) writes: >be delivered successfully. Case in point: I just received an @MUSH >request from > > uwm!cs.utexas.edu!hpaustx!stuart > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > This domain name causes confusion. > >OGI's sendmail translates this into > > stuart%hpaustx@cs.utexas.edu > >which cs.utexas.edu then returns as host unknown (because it doesn't >understand a%b@c syntax). There is no way for me to prevent OGI's >sendmail from perpetrating this nonsense, so I am completely unable to >send mail to hpaustx. In general, I have little sympathy for mailers which turn ! into %. It usually causes more problems than it solves. That's why the mailer on cs.utexas.edu does what Bart describes. I feel obliged to point out, however, that the mailer *understands* a%b@c syntax just fine--it just insists that b be a FQDN. It will even honor the fake UUCP domain, so a workaround to this particular problem is <stuart%hpaustx.uucp@cs.utexas.edu>. A real solution, of course, is a domain address. If someone from HP will register the domain, I'll happily do MX forwarding on cs.utexas.edu.