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From: alex@bilver.uucp (Alex Matulich)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,news.newusers.questions
Subject: Aargh!  Can't seem to send email to Fidonet!
Keywords: fidonet, mail, zone, net, point
Message-ID: <1991Feb24.225330.2356@bilver.uucp>
Date: 24 Feb 91 22:53:30 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
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I have been trying to send email to fidonet, and have failed miserably
in all my attempts.  I am using John Chew's recent article on inter-network
mail as a guide.  In the example on mailing from internet to fido, if
the recipient is

John Smith at 1:2/3.4

then the address I am supposed to use is

john.smith@p4.f3.n2.z1.fidonet.org
 
There are two problems.  The fido address I need to send to is not a point,
so the address is actually of the form 1:2/3 instead of 1:2/3.4.  What
do I do in this case?

The second problem is that the mailer here will only accept the 'bang' type
of addresses of the form ...site1!site2!site3!username instead of the
username@site form.  I can send to uunet from here, but uunet is sending
back every attempt I make.

Please help!  Thanks.

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