Re: Making smail2.5 understand <user>%<site>@<site>

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From: Pete French
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1989 07:54

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From article <126099@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, by argv%turnpike@Sun.COM (Dan Heller):

> the following are "similar" addresses:
> 
>     user%addr1@addr2
>     addr1!user@addr2
>     addr2!addr1!user
> 
> In all cases, the mail goes thru addr2 first, then to addr1, then to the user.

This is not necessarily true in the case of the second one. Another BT site
I used to work on ran bog-standard V7 mail - and as such would not understand
@ signs. the syntax "addr1!user@addr2" would send the string "user@addr2" to
machine "addr1" over a uucp link. This is still the only way we have of getting
mail out of the system - routing via !'s to a machine that can translate the
@ signs for us. This is not the first time I have seen this either.

-Pete.

PS: If anyone can tell me where to get a copy of a mailer that will translate
    the @ signs properly then let me know would you....

-- 
       -Pete French.               | "Love is the corpse,
  British Telecom Research Labs.   |  That crawls on dreams,
 Martlesham Heath, East Anglia.    |  Rips them apart,
All my own thoughts (of course)    |  And tears them to shreds" - SOM

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!galadriel!pcf

References: <126099@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>

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From: pcf@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Pete French)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Making smail2.5 understand <user>%<site>@<site>
Message-ID: <386@galadriel.bt.co.uk>
Date: 12 Oct 89 07:54:06 GMT
References: <126099@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: RT6115, BTRL, Martlesham Heath, England
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