schaefer@CSE.OGI.EDU (Barton E. Schaefer) (12/14/89)
This is a public service announcement, sort of.
I'm still getting notices from my mail server that bounced mush shippings
have been discarded. If you haven't gotten your shipment, or if all
you've received is the server transcript, then you most likely didn't give
a complete enough path on the @MUSH line.
If you got a transcript but no 9-part tarmail, resend your request but
*omit* the address on the @MUSH line. In that case the server will use
the From_ line address for both the 9-part and the transcript.
If you didn't get anything at all, please note the following:
1. Our sendmail.cf has recently changed so that addresses of the form
uucphost!user@site.internet.domain
and
site.internet.domain!uucphost!user
are both being rewritten as
user%uucphost@site.internet.domain
While this sometimes works, it frequently doesn't -- in particular,
when site.internet.domain is cis.ohio-state.edu or cs.utexas.edu,
the user%uucphost part gets rejected. I've brought this problem
to the attention of our postmaster, but for the near future, if
you specify a mixed-mode address you probably aren't going to get
your sources. Try to work out a uucp-only path.
2. The mailer here is not yet doing any kind of uucp map lookups. That
means that if you don't start your path with a host that ogicse talks
to directly, you won't get anything. ogicse does NOT talk directly
to either ucbvax or uunet, which seem to be common in bounced stuff.
ogicse DOES talk directly to rutgers, harvard, ucsd, sdsu, unmvax,
umich, garp, tektronix, and about two dozen others, so you should be
able to find a path from here to wherever you are.
I may try to work out a way to have the server do its own map lookups,
but I don't know how soon. In the meantime, sorry for the problems,
and good luck ...
--
Bart Schaefer "Miserable miscreant! Question MY integrity, will you?"
"I have to see some *evidence* of it before I can question it."
-- Calvin & Hobbes
schaefer@cse.ogi.edu (used to be cse.ogc.edu)