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Re: Question on mail addressing

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From: Marc Fournier - Admin
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 05:15
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In article <1992Dec19.213934.18612@r-node.gts.org> gerald@csoft.uucp writes:
>I'm having some problems sending and recieving mail, so I thought I'd 
>ask here.
>
>Most of the mail that comes to me has a log entry in the uu logfiles like:
>rmail username
>
>Now, sometimes I get mail, for a user on my system, of the form:
>rmail system!system!...!username
>
>however, none of the information relates to my system. How do I know it's
>for one of my users? Well, I have a uucp checker that tells a user whtn
>a job has been idle for a certain amount of time. I got one, checked, 
>and found out that the mail *was* for someone on my system, even though
>it was in the outbound queue. I am trying to determine the "right" way
>to read my logs, so I'll be able to figure out what might be happening.
>
>Please respond via email, either to gerald@csoft.uucp or
>david@r-node.gts.org , because our Newsfeed is sporadic as of late, and
>I don't want to miss any info. :-)
>I'll be more then happy to post a followup, to summarize.
>
>Gerald.
>-- 
>Gerald
>david@r-node.gts.org
>
>Toronto Blue Jays - 1992 American League Champions | Go JAYS Go!

NOTE::  

	Gerald is operating on a Coherent system.  My memory of
Coherent was that their logging was different the normal
logging...that may have changed, in which case this note is totally
irrelavent :)

Marc


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From: marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - Admin)
Subject: Re: Question on mail addressing
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Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX Information System (416-249-5366)
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