Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!galadriel!pcf From: pcf@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Pete French) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Making smail2.5 understand %@ 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 Lines: 27 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