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From: wwtaroli@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Bill Taroli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP E-Mail Questions
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.205859.295@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 91 20:58:59 GMT
References: <6487@hplabsz.HP.COM> <1991Jan23.195252.19378@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1991Jan23.195252.19378@Neon.Stanford.EDU> ramani@CS.Stanford.EDU (Ramani Pichumani) writes:
>Apparently the "/26" is not needed anymore - the HP mail relay
>apparently resolves it.

Well, of course, a problem would arise if the name you used was ambiguous to
the system. Does anyone know what the gateway does if this situation occurs?
Is it possible that a server will become available so that names can be
resolved similarly to the method used when entering addresses in an HP Desk
message?

>Interestingly enough, when I received a reply from him, his return
>address was listed as:
>
>	a_j_o_brien%26@hp6650.desk.hp.com

Yes, the HP Desk system uses sublocation codes whenever possible... so it 
makes sense that this would occur.

>For the sake of completeness, I was told that my address from the
>perspective of HP Desk is as follows:
>
>	ramani@patience.stanford.edu /HPUNIX/UX

Not completely true. I know that we would have had to write such an address
as:

	ramani (patience.stanford.edu) /HP1900/UX

HPUNIX is a location code for HP Internet sites. HP1900 is used for non-HP
sites. It is an interesting note, also, that any message received by someone
on HP Desk from the outside would has a part inserted at the top stating this
fact. (Isn't that a bit of a waste of bandwidth?)

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