Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sco!davidbe From: davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: Can not mail off-site, RTFM not much help Keywords: unknown domain Message-ID: <418@scorn.sco.COM> Date: 21 Nov 89 00:11:38 GMT References: <801@dsacg2.UUCP> <89Nov18.122827est.2712@neat.cs.toronto.edu> Sender: news@sco.COM Reply-To: davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat) Distribution: na Organization: The Stiflingly Corsetted Orifice Lines: 51 news.newusers.questions's own lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy) said: -nam2254@dsacg2.UUCP (Tom Ohmer) writes: - ->I tried: uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry from Henry's .sig -> henry@zoo.toronto.edu " " " -> henry@utzoo.uucp " " header From: line - -The second address ought to have worked; the fact that it did not indicates -that your site's mailer is still using the thoroughly useless static hosts -file from nic.ddn.mil instead of querying a domain name server, or is misusing -that data. - -you can derive an address that has a better chance of working for you, namely, - attcan!utzoo!henry@uunet.uu.net -and because utzoo appears in the UUCP routing data you can shorten that to - utzoo!henry@uunet.uu.net No, no, no, no, no. (uh uh...) As was said elsewhere (but it's worth repeating) mixing !'s and @'s is *bad*. Not all sites will parse an address formed like this in the same way. (Don't ask me to explain; suffice to say there's a new RFC and an old RFC. One of them says that an @ has precedence over a !, and the other one says the opposite. I don't even want to get into %'s.) If your site connects to the internet then mailing to: henry@zoo.toronto.edu should have worked. Since it didn't work, you should mail through your local feed site, creating the address: !zoo.toronto.edu!henry This may look like an old-fashioned UUCP bang path, but in reality you're just sending it to an intelligent site, which figures out the intermediate path, which gets it to the user (rather than having to figure out the names yourself). If that doesn't work, find out who your feed talks to, and simply add another domain in the path; i.e.: !!zoo.toronto.edu!henry and that should work. Hope this helps more than it confuses. David -- David Bedno aka davidbe@sco.COM: Speaking from but not for SCO. " -- they're normal. terrifyingly, appallingly normal -- like they've gone through normal and come out the other side." - neil gaiman in _Sandman_ #11