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From: edward@twg.com (Edward C. Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Help sending mail out of PROFS
Message-ID: <215@gollum.twg.com>
Date: 19 Mar 90 02:05:53 GMT
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Reply-To: edward@twg.com (Edward C. Bennett)
Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA
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At her job, my stepmother uses PROFS on a big IBM something-or-other that
is connected to BITNET. I can send mail to her through one of the recognized
Internet/BITNET gateways just fine. The problem is that she can't get mail
back to me.

Her SA set her up using something called PUMP, which allows the localpart
of an address to be longer than BITNET's (or is it PROFS') limit of 8
characters. The address I suggested was "edward%twg.com@cunyvm". Well,
that got as far as CUNY and bounced. She, the mail folks at her site, and
the gateway people at CUNY have been trying countless things for months
now with no success.

Does anyone out there know how to coerce a PROFS system into sending
mail to the Internet?

Thanks in advance,

Ed

(It's frightening to find a problem that MMDF can't fix! ;-)
-- 
Edward C. Bennett - The other MMDF guy			edward@twg.com
The Wollongong Group					(415) 962-7252
1129 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303
   "He's become a growling, snarling mass of white-hot canine terror"