[comp.org.eff.talk] &^$^%$#$%R&* SCO MAIL SYSTEM!!!

cat@tygra.UUCP (CAT-TALK Maint. Account) (08/22/90)

In article <28694@netnews.upenn.edu> kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
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} Whelp, I tried...
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}From tygra!tygra_mailer_daemon@uunet.UU.NET Tue Aug 21 13:07:48 1990
}Received: from tygra.UUCP by uunet.uu.net (5.61/1.14) with UUCP 
}	id AA17961; Tue, 21 Aug 90 13:07:44 -0400
}Date: Tue, 21 Aug 90 13:07:44 -0400
}From: tygra!tygra_mailer_daemon@uunet.uu.net
}To: uunet!scotty.dccs.upenn.edu!kehoe@uunet.UU.NET
}Subject: mail problem
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}Trouble sending mail at `tygra',  Tue Aug 21 09:33:29 1990
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}============ Transcript follows ============
}  tygra.ddmi.com!jpp
}0 alias errors
}bad system name: tygra.d
}uux failed ( 11 )
}..mail.local: uux execution error
}Can't send to: tygra.ddmi.com!jpp
}1 delivery errors
}1 total errors
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OK, sorry about that - everyone please STOP sending replies!!!! The problem
lies with UUNET not peeling off the "tygra.ddmi.com" before it sends the    
message to tygra. I tried to get the UUNET postmaster to fix it but he
doesn't seem to be able to do it. Problem is that the brain-dead mailer
that comes with SCO Xenix 2.3.2 (what mailer??) has no way of specifying:
 
 "If you see tygra.ddmi.com!user or tygra!user, then that just means
  the local user "user""