Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!ariel!mungarra!clive From: clive@mungarra.asis.unimelb.edu.au (Clive Newall) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Changing user@address to user%address@gateway Message-ID: Date: 19 Dec 90 01:30:20 GMT References: <1990Dec17.184212.484@javelin.es.com> <1990Dec17.200550.15682@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1990Dec18.170919.20085@javelin.es.com> Sender: news@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au Lines: 27 pashdown@javelin.es.com (Pete Ashdown) writes: >rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: >> No they don't. According to my nameserver, I can send mail to >>'pashdown@javelin.es.com'. My mailer will transfer the message to host >>'orca.es.com' which is on Internet. I presume that orca.es.com is also >>on your internal network, and capable of forwarding the mail to javelin. >That's where you are wrong. 'orca' is not capable of finding 'javelin' at >all. However, 'orca' is capable of finding 'dsd' which is capable of >finding 'javelin'. I know the obvious answer is to _fix 'orca'_, but >unfortunately, I have no control over that. Then I think you should tell whoever does, that unless THEY fix orca, they are LYING about their status as the MX forwarder to the hosts in es.com. By having the MX record for javelin point to orca, orca is claiming to be able to forward mail to javelin. If this is not the case, surely it is their responsibility to correct things... >> Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science > Pete Ashdown pashdown%javelin@dsd.es.com ...dsd.es.com!javelin!pashdown Clive Newall E-mail: clive@asis.unimelb.EDU.AU {or try: clive%asis.unimelb.EDU.AU@munnari.OZ.AU} Admin. Systems & Info. Serv., Univ. of Melb., Parkville, Vict., Aust., 3052