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Re: problems with mail to the .UK domain

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From: Jonathan Knight
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1989 13:29
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From article <JH.89Jun20105203@tikka.tut.fi>, by jh@tut.fi (Hein{nen Juha):
> In article <513@lri.lri.fr> rd@lri.lri.fr (Roland Dirlewanger) writes:
> 
>    Now the question : what's exactly going on ? Does the English
>    UUCP backbone and the EARN gateway treat .UK addresses in two
>    different ways ? Does they reject some mail without informing
>    the sender ?
> 
> Yes they seem to do so. I tried a few months ago several times reach
> d.knight@euclid.ucl.ac.uk and the mail went never through nor produced
> any message back.  UK seems to have severe either technical or more
> likely, political, problems with their mail handling.  This applies
> also to outbound mail to Internet receivers in Europe.

As I understand it, the UKC gateway (mcvax!ukc, ukc.ac.uk) does not
allow any mail from 'mailer-daemon' to leave the UK.  This means that
once mail has arrived in the UK, no error message will make it out.

Try one of the other gateways, they might allow error messages out.

nsfnet-relay.ac.uk		(Internet)
earn-relay.ac.uk, ukacrl	(Bitnet)
cs.ucl.ac.uk			(Ean)

For UUCP mail, you might try this:  mcvax!ukacrl.bitnet!<site> as
mcvax belongs to the bitnet network (I think).
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  ______    JANET :jonathan@uk.ac.keele.cs     Jonathan Knight,
    /       BITNET:jonathan%cs.kl.ac.uk@ukacrl Department of Computer Science
   / _   __ other :jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk     University of Keele, Keele,
(_/ (_) / / UUCP  :...!ukc!kl-cs!jonathan      Staffordshire.  ST5 5BG.  U.K.
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From: jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight)
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Subject: Re: problems with mail to the .UK domain
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Date: 21 Jun 89 13:29:02 GMT
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Posted: Wed Jun 21 14:29:02 1989