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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: OSI == second system syndrome
- Message-ID: <id.TPVS._L3@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <BtMtov.9xK@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <id.ZIRS.GD@ferranti.com> <1992Aug31.140004.4374@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 18:50:41 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1992Aug31.140004.4374@news.lrz-muenchen.de> Michael.Storz@lrz.lrz-muenchen.dbp.de writes:
- > In article <id.ZIRS.GD@ferranti.com>, peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- > |> As X.400 gets more common, I'm getting more and more bounces. Worse, I'm
- > |> getting bounces from replies to messages originated in X.400 land, where
- > |> the gateway didn't put an unambiguous address in the sender field. Because
- > |> there is no such thing as an unambiguous address in X.400.
-
- > Sorry, I do not understand these sentences, the information in them seem to be
- > very strange to me.
-
- > 1) Why should the gateway put an address in the sender field?
-
- So that the recipient can reply to the message. It has to put *something*
- from the X.400 sender address in the RFC822 From line.
-
- > 2) What do you mean with unambiguous address?
-
- I mean I'll get mail from "Joe.Blow@foo.bar.something.something" and when I
- reply to it I get a bounce from the X.400 gatweway telling me there are half
- a dozen Joe Blows at foo.bar.
-
- > 3) Why do you think that X.400 does not know such thing like an unambiguous
- > address?
-
- An X.400 address is more like a pattern. It specifies search criteria in
- greater and greater detail, but there seems to be no fixed subset of an
- address that uniquely specifies a recipient.
-
- > 4) What are you doing with an address of the sender field in a reply?
-
- I'm putting it in my "To" field.
- --
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