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From: tomg@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Thomas J. Gilg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: addressees at APOLLo.COM
Message-ID: <101020009@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 8 Oct 90 17:35:09 GMT
References: <1990Sep30.171715.4183@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> And yes, the IP address for apollo.hp.com isn't reachable outside the HP
> Internet, but the MX list for apollo.hp.com includes two hosts -
> amway.ch.apollo.hp.com and hp-sde.sde.hp.com - which are.  Any MX-capable
> version of sendmail should be able to get to apollo.hp.com without any
> problems.

I've been told that HP's official e-mail addressing form is:

     person@hpsite_and_or_hpdivision.hp.com

     eg,  tomg@cv.hp.com

As pointed out, the machine listed may not be visible to the outside
world, and I was wrong in posting an address # for apollo.hp.com

Its been my experience that the host name(s) formed above aren't always
resolvable by my friends outside of HP; I guess they don't understand MX
lists, or whatever.  In such cases, I don't depend on any "default" HP
gateway to resolve things, but instead, I have them use:

     person%hpsite_and_or_hpdivision.hp.com@a_known_hp_gateway

     eg,  tomg%cv.hp.com@hplabs.hp.com

This second e-mail addressing form has yet to fail me or any of my friends.

Thomas "I never did/will understand the e-mail magic" Gilg
tomg@cv.hp.com