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Article #18Re: Strange address.
From: Henry Stilmack
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:30
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:30
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In article <1992Oct14.205444.14922@u.washington.edu>, miser@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Fulwell) writes: |> I have no idea where to ask this question so I thought I might try here. |> |> I recently received this address to reach my brother in Britain (Kent County |> Council) and it doesn't seem to be working. |> |> MHS!KCC/S=TIM/O=SERVER@ATTMAIL.COM. |> ^Is this an 'oh' or a zero? It's an "OH" - what you have here (looks like) an X.400 address passed through an SMTP mailer via a UUCP connection. Yucckk! The "S" is the "SYSTEM" field, and the "O" is the "ORGANIZATION" field of the X.400 address spec. |> |> What can I do to make this work? You don't say what OS/mailer combination you are using. The (supposed - I've never sent to anyone on this net) general way to mail from Internet to ATTMail is to send to user@attmail.com. I'd try that, using whatever syntax your mailer needs to get to attmail. |> |> Thanks a lot for you help. |> |> Rob. |> You're welcome. -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Henry Stilmack ) Computing Systems Manager ) "Haven't you heard, UK/Netherlands/Canada Joint Astronomy Centre ) it's a battle of words - 660 N. A'ohoku Place, Hilo, HI 96720 ) and most of them are lies..." hps@jach.Hawaii.Edu 808-969-6546 ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!sgiblab!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!kaua!hps From: hps@kaua.jach.hawaii.edu (Henry Stilmack) Subject: Re: Strange address. Message-ID: <1992Oct15.193035.22996@news.Hawaii.Edu> Sender: hps@kaua (Henry Stilmack) Nntp-Posting-Host: kaua.jach.hawaii.edu Organization: UK/Canada/Netherlands Joint Astronomy Centre References: <1992Oct14.205444.14922@u.washington.edu> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:30:35 GMT Lines: 36