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From: joe@cbnews.att.com (Joseph Judge)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: is user@iguana == user@iguana.UUCP or user@iguana.local.domain?
Message-ID: <1990Aug20.203706.19252@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 20 Aug 90 20:37:06 GMT
References: <1990Aug13.160019.15126@lsuc.on.ca>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1990Aug13.160019.15126@lsuc.on.ca> merce@iguana.UUCP (Jim Mercer) writes:
>[ Followups to comp.mail.misc, as this issue does not limit itself to one
>  area ]
>

	It's them. 

	You *have* to tweek pathalias (uses the comp.mail.maps) to handle
	these conflicts.

	Please notify the adminstrators of the sites that are sending you 
	email to fix their end.

	We have to do the same here at AT&T. We label our links as (LOCAL)
	so they have a lower cost - we fail on the side of caution.
	We don't want some proprietary email going to Canada (no offense).

	When those adminsitrators find out what's hapening, either from 
	the remote site admin (you) or local folks with failed email to
	iguana!my_pal_joey - when they know he's valid (locally).

	
	Joseph Judge		postmaster@ATT.COM

(Hi Jim - why doesn't iguana talk to lsuc?? )


>
>recently, i have been receiving mail for user@iguana.???.???.edu,
>user@iguana.???.com, etc. etc.
>
>now, what's the deal here?
>
>as i see it someone one on a machine under one of these domains sends mail
>to user@iguana (meaning user@iguana.local.domain) but for some reason it
>goes to user@iguana.UUCP (and i mean that explicitly as i have seen in the
>headers where it changes from iguana.local.domain to iguana.uucp in the
>>Received: lines)
>
>is this a TCP/IP MX'er problem?
>is this a sendmail problem?
>does this happen every time someone sets up a new sub-domain with an
>identical name to that of a .uucp site?
>
>thus far i have received around 8 messages this way.
>
>my action so far has been to attempt to reroute the message and inform the
>postmasters of the various sites.
>
>i deleted the mail so i don't have an example for you.  if this discussion
>still lives and i get another bounced message, i'll post the relevant parts.
>
>-- 
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