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- From: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
- Subject: When having no response from Garbo mail server
- Message-ID: <ts9212292314.23849@chyde.uwasa.fi>
- Followup-To: comp.archives.msdos.d
- Sender: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
- Organization: University of Vaasa
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:14:19 GMT
- Approved: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi
- Lines: 59
-
- Here is a typical case of problems which on the surface would seem
- to be with the Garbo mail server, but which are factually email
- adressing path problems. As I say in my Garbo instructions offer:
-
- "If you do not receive my reply within five days, please ask your
- own site's system manager to construct a returnable mail path for
- you".
-
- Thus, if you don't hear from me, that really means that your email
- bounces. There is |ittle that we can do from this end that would
- solve such problems on a permanent basis, even if we might find a
- roundabout way to reply (but it would not help much in using the
- mail server). Thus, it is your site's system manager or postmaster
- who should look at problems like this one.
-
- Like I indicated, Kenneth's message below demonstrates a typical
- case in the sense that since my reply to him bounced, there is
- nothing more I can currently do. Even if I had the time to try, I
- don't have the postmaster management know-how.
-
- ONE VERY IMPORTANT POINT TO ALL MAILSERVER USERS!
- =================================================
- If you don't get any response to your mail server requests, under no
- circumstances keep sending the same request over and over again. If
- you do, it may crash Garbo even if our tempermental lady has been
- more tolerant lately after being pampered with some additional
- memory.
-
- All the best, Timo
-
- >Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 13:44 MST
- >From: anasaz!kew@uucs1 ()
- >To: ts@uwasa.fi
- >Subject: Please help me with garbo-request
- >
- >Timo,
- >
- >I have been having problems requesting files from the garbo archive via
- >mailserv@garbo.uwasa.fi for many months now. Could you please look at
- >this mail message and tell me what I am doing wrong. I can't even get
- >a help message out of garbo. Also, I don't get any bounced e-mail back.
- >My requests just seem to go into a black hole. About a year ago, I did
- >not have any trouble getting files from garbo. I have also tried a variety
- >of return paths with the "path" command. Nothing seems to work.
- >
- >Thank you very much,
- >Ken
- >
- >My mail subject would normally be garbo-request.
- >
- >My mail message would normally look something like this:
- >
- >send pc/diskutil/hdtst498.zip
- >quit
- >
- >--
- >Kenneth E. Wharton | "To think is to practice brain chemistry."
- >UUCS inc., Phoenix, AZ | - Dr. Deepak Chopra
- >ncar!noao!asuvax!anasaz!uucs1!kew |
-