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From: bauman@shell.com (Evan Bauman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Help sending mail out of PROFS
Message-ID: <1607@shell.shell.com>
Date: 21 Mar 90 14:16:48 GMT
References: <215@gollum.twg.com>
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In article <215@gollum.twg.com> edward@twg.com (Edward C. Bennett) writes:
>
>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.
>

A couple of years ago, I ran into the same problem with folks from
BITNET trying to e-mail to me at my internet address through CUNYVM.
At that time, CUNYVM wasn't running a mailer that did name resolution
with BIND.  So they had only the list of hosts that was in the hosts.txt
file distributed by Stanford, which is now woefully inadequate.  I pressed
our postmaster to get CUNYVM to change this, but he said they were
resistant.

I have no idea what's happened since then.

	Evan G. Bauman
	Shell Development Company - Westhollow Research Center
	PO Box 1380; Houston, TX 77251-1380
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