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- From: jgb@mcm.com (Jeff Bennington)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: uuxqt with bad addresses
- Summary: uuxqt chokes with Decnet addresses
- Keywords: uuxqt Decnet
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.165243.12526@mcm.com>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 16:52:43 GMT
- Reply-To: jgb@honeydew (Jeff Bennington)
- Distribution: na
- Organization: Mellon Capital Management Corp., San Francisco
- Lines: 51
-
- Recently an email item arrived via uucp which contained a translated
- address from Decnet (I believe). uuxqt didn't understand the
- syntax for the return address, so it logged the event and tossed
- the email item out. Had our site not been trapping mail (for
- tracking down another unrelated mail problem here) we would have
- never found this:
-
- Here's the X. file: ("user" substituted to protect the guilty!)
-
- U daemon netcomsv
- # return status on failure
- Z
- # use sh to execute
- e
- # return address for status or input return
- R "huge1::user"@ljohub.enet.dec.com
- # job id for status reporting
- J casabaC6616
- F D.netco74d7485
- I D.netco74d7485
- C rmail jgb@mcm.com
-
- Our system:
- Sun Sparcs running SunOS 4.1.2.
-
- I spoke with our uucp neighbor, Netcom... They say this is a known problem
- in uucp-land, what with the various network email translations
- going on, and lack of clear-cut standards.
-
- My questions:
-
- 1. Is there a simple solution for resolving this with an
- upgraded uuxqt?
-
- 2. How has your site solved this, or have you just ignored
- the problem, waiting for the other mailers to conform
- to uuxqt-understandable addresses?
-
- 3. Is there a simple mod to let the newsadmin know
- this happens? (Yes, I could write a script to
- scan the logs for choke messages..)
-
- 4. How should the site doing the translation handle
- this address? Something like user%huge1@ijohub...?
- I understand the double quotes make uuxqt choke.
-
-
- Thanks!
-
- jeff
- jgb@mcm.com
-