Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!iuvax!purdue!haven!decuac!shlump.nac.dec.com!michaud From: michaud@decvax.dec.com (Jeff Michaud) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: DEC Email Addresses (was Re: electronic SPR) Keywords: Enet, person@node.enet.dec.com, Easynet Message-ID: <4235@shlump.nac.dec.com> Date: 22 Aug 89 02:03:53 GMT References: <1447@riscy.dec.com> <7684@cbmvax.UUCP> <3132@rti.UUCP> Distribution: comp Lines: 25 > Finally, I've had pretty good luck with sending E-mail to people inside > DEC, including the support center people. All of DEC internal seems to > be on a flat addressed net called E-net. If your system supports domain > style addresses and you want to send mail to person@node, then mail to > person@node.dec.com works. If not, then you need to go thru one of the > gateways, either decuac or decwrl. In this case, adresses of the form > ...!decuac!node.dec.com!person or ...!decuac!node.enet!person seem to > work. If your system can be accessed by a domain style address, they have > no problem sending mail back to you, otherwise you may have a problem... FWIW, the new syntax is person@node.enet.dec.com BTW, E-net (which is short for Easynet, but used to stand for Engineering Net a long time ago) is, for the most part, DEC's internal DECnet network (30,000+ nodes in size as last officially reported). Also, decwrl is the prefered gateway to/from the easynet ... -- /--------------------------------------------------------------\ |Jeff Michaud michaud@decwrl.dec.com michaud@decvax.dec.com| |DECnet-ULTRIX #include | \--------------------------------------------------------------/