Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM!nsb From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: .MS.DirectPost Message-ID: Date: 9 Nov 90 13:55:43 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 20 The problem isn't .MS.DirectPost, it's what you put in it. What goes there has to be a valid address. sung+andrew is simply not a valid address in a normal BSD delivery environment. (With AMDS, a valid userid can be followed by a plus sign and ANY string, but this is not true with BSD mail delivery.) To obtain the same kind of functionality with BSD/sendmail delivery, you can hide the informaton in the RFC822 route phrase, using an address of the following form: sung+andrew or, if you prefer sung+andrew Either of these should work fine, at least if you've upgraded to Andrew patch level 6 or higher. Let me know if that isn't clear. -- Nathaniel