Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!fletcher
From: fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: Mush mail server (@MUSH) info
Message-ID: <920@ai.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 25 Sep 90 21:17:23 GMT
References: <40520@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <142881@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <12357@ogicse.ogi.edu>
Organization: Dept of Computer Sciences, UTexas, Austin
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In article <12357@ogicse.ogi.edu> (Barton E. Schaefer) writes:

>be delivered successfully.  Case in point:  I just received an @MUSH
>request from
>
>    uwm!cs.utexas.edu!hpaustx!stuart
>	^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>	This domain name causes confusion.
>
>OGI's sendmail translates this into
>
>    stuart%hpaustx@cs.utexas.edu
>
>which cs.utexas.edu then returns as host unknown (because it doesn't
>understand a%b@c syntax).  There is no way for me to prevent OGI's
>sendmail from perpetrating this nonsense, so I am completely unable to
>send mail to hpaustx.

In general, I have little sympathy for mailers which turn ! into %.
It usually causes more problems than it solves.  That's why the
mailer on cs.utexas.edu does what Bart describes.

I feel obliged to point out, however, that the mailer *understands*
a%b@c syntax just fine--it just insists that b be a FQDN.  It will
even honor the fake UUCP domain, so a workaround to this particular
problem is <stuart%hpaustx.uucp@cs.utexas.edu>.

A real solution, of course, is a domain address.  If someone
from HP will register the domain, I'll happily do MX forwarding
on cs.utexas.edu.