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> I am easily able to send e-mail to all Internet and Bitnet
> locations, and MOST hosts seem able to send us mail.  However,
> there are many hosts and some are on the same campus, with the
> same domain, that cannot send mail to "lawlords.law.csuohio.edu"
> at all.
>
> I have also noticed that sometimes I am unable to get mail
> delievered normally from certain Archie sites (they always
> indicate some error), for example.  I have begun to suspec that
> our address is too long, that the "law" in
> "lawlords.law.csuohio.edu" should be removed, making the address
> "lawlords.csuohio.edu" instead, and that this might alleviate
> the problem entirely

Joe, how did you notice that mail isn't delivered? Did you hear that your
mail couldn't be sent to you from a relay due to an address being too long?

Really internet-relays should have no difficulties with long addresses, but
perhaps mail was routet via BITNET. And there any header is limited to 80
characters and perhaps a SMTP/BSMTP-Gateway destroyed your address.

But you can't surround the problem by shortening your address. THe problem
is that some relays append their domain to your (From-)address which is
used as REPLY-address from servers. Thus your original address may become
more than 80 characters in length.


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