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re: sending mail from '.edu' to '.com'

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From: nauen
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 02:19

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In <10096@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> liny@sun16.scri.fsu.edu (Nemo) writes:

> I cannot send mail to most of the *.com addressses (e.g. adam@smith.com),
> even when 'adam' can send mail to me.  . . .  I cannot 'ping' smith.com
> ("unknown host: smith.com"), but I can ping 'gateway' and 'crunch'.

You may want to ping someone instead, possibly the admin of whatever machine
is telling you "unknown host", about dealing inconsistently with MX records.

Until they fix it, though, you could maybe use 

  adam%smith.com@relay1.UU.NET

Ric <nauen@wrair-emh1.army.mil>  <nauen%wrmain.decnet@detrick-emh1.army.mil>
           ^^^^^Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
        U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

> smith.com.
Server:  wrair-emh1.army.mil
Address:  0.0.0.0

Non-authoritative answer:
smith.com       preference = 200, mail exchanger = relay1.UU.NET
smith.com       preference = 200, mail exchanger = relay2.UU.NET
(etc.)
gateway.smith.com       preference = 200, mail exchanger = relay1.UU.NET
gateway.smith.com       preference = 200, mail exchanger = relay2.UU.NET
(etc.)
crunch.smith.com        preference = 200, mail exchanger = relay1.UU.NET
crunch.smith.com        preference = 200, mail exchanger = relay2.UU.NET

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arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!ucbvax!WRAIR-EMH1.ARMY.MIL!nauen

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From: nauen@WRAIR-EMH1.ARMY.MIL
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: re: sending mail from '*.edu' to '*.com'
Message-ID: <9208070134.AA05521@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 7 Aug 92 02:19:00 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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