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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: Question: send mail from Internet to UUCP
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Date: 19 Oct 90 05:14:30 GMT
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In article <1990Oct17.215404.16301@beach.csulb.edu> stevela@beach.csulb.edu (Steve La) writes:
>Hello Networkers,
>  How can I send a mail message from an Internet node to a user with an UUCP mail address?  Help!!!  
>  I want to send a mail message to "Darek@microsoft.UUCP".  What should I type in the "To:" prompt? 
>Thanks in advance.

In another reply someone mentioned that sending "user@host.uucp" always works
fine for him. What works and what doesn't depends on your site's mail
configuration. That usually depends on the competence and conscientiousness
of your site admin. For the more brain-dead systems that are on the Internet,
you can almost always get mail thru to a UUCP site by sending it to uunet.
So for example, rewrite "darek@microsoft.uucp" as
	darek%microsoft.uucp@uunet.uu.net
that will take care of 98% of the cases.

The other poster also mentioned not being able to directly reply to mail that
originated from a UUCP site. You can usually take paths of the form
	host-c!host-b!host-a!user
and again send 'em thru uunet:
	user%host-a%host-b%host-c.uucp@uunet.uu.net

Sorry for the non-ST related posting, but it seemed worth mentioning. (Ok, take
off the net admin hat, put the ST hacker hat back on. Much better...  }-)
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