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- From: garland@ihspa.att.com (45262-Garland)
- Subject: Re: Reply addresses from ATTMAIL.COM
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 07:27:20 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.072720.14906@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
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- In article <726586809snx@sugs.tware.com> landis@sugs.tware.com (Hale Landis) writes:
- >
- >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?
-
- Hmm, it seems to work fine for me, even when I originate the mail from
- outside AT&T. Please mail me the exact bounce message you received,
- and I'll check into it. You could also send mail to the ATTMAIL Help
- Desk, atthelp@attmail.com.
-
- Chris
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- --
- Chris Garland, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Christine.M.Garland@att.com
-