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Re: Now the reverse: bitnet -> uucp

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From: David Herron -- One of the verte...
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1989 20:39
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Ah, here's the rub ...

On BITNET each site has its own idea of the right way to do mail.
They tell everybody else how to send mail there by way of some
pre-defined tokens that are stored in a file available from BITNIC.

There are many different ways of sending mail across BITNET.  "NERVM"
may not be able to to the right thing, which is:

	send a PUNCH file containing BSMTP formatted data to
	an appropriate user ID at some node.  If it were sent
	to MAILER@PSUVAX1 then the right things would happen.

But without knowing what software is available at NERVM it's hard
to say what s/he needs to do.  I do know that if they run the Crosswell
mailer that it has magic stuff in it to turn mail addressed to

	user@host.uucp

into a BSMTP file of the right qualities and ship it off to MAILER@PSUVAX1.

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<-- David Herron; an MMDF guy                              <david@ms.uky.edu>
<-- ska: David le casse\*'      {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET
<-- 
<-- For a good time send mail to somebody@ms.uky.edu
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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Now the reverse: bitnet -> uucp
Keywords: bitnet uucp
Message-ID: <11258@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 89 20:39:52 GMT
References: <1244@sagepub.UUCP>
Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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