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- From: landis@sugs.tware.com (Hale Landis)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Reply addresses from ATTMAIL.COM
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <726586809snx@sugs.tware.com>
- Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 13:40:09 GMT
- Organization: SUGS
- Lines: 34
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- I have sent mail to POSTMASTER@ATTMAIL.COM and I have received
- no reply yet. Maybe someone out there can answer this one...
-
- I have several friends that get their net mail via ATTMAIL.COM.
- Also, at work, my company uses ATTMAIL.COM to get mail into a VAX
- based mail system. In all cases, when I receive mail at any of
- my net accounts around the country, from my friends who are stuck
- using ATTMAIL.COM, the reply address in their message is
- incorrect.
-
- For example, if a friends mail address is
-
- mhs!bigcorp/g=john/s=doe@attmail.com
-
- when John Doe sends me a message, the reply address in that
- message will be
-
- bigcorp/g=john/s=doe@mhs.attmail.com
-
- If I reply to this address, ATTMAIL.COM will bounce the message and
- say that MHS is an UNKNOWN DOMAIN or UNKNOWN HOST. What gives here?
-
- It seems to me that ATTMAIL.COM must know what/who MHS is
- otherwise why would it need it to deliever mail to BIGCORP? And
- why would ATTMAIL.COM not understand a reply address it probably
- generated itself?
-
- Anyone from ATTMAIL out there reading this?
-
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- Hale Landis Santa Cruz, CA USA
- 408-423-4017 -or- 408-439-2443
- landis@sugs.tware.com -or- hale_landis@notes.seagate.com
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