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From: pozar@kumr.lns.com (Tim Pozar)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Aargh!  Can't seem to send email to Fidonet!
Keywords: fidonet, mail, zone, net, point
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.231443.4068@kumr.lns.com>
Date: 28 Feb 91 23:14:43 GMT
References: <1991Feb24.225330.2356@bilver.uucp>
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Organization: Late Night Software (San Francisco)
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In article <1991Feb24.225330.2356@bilver.uucp> alex@bilver.uucp (Alex Matulich) writes:
>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?
   If there is no point, you leave it off of the Internet domain 
address for FidoNet.  Ie: John.Smith@f3.n2.z1.fidonet.org

>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.
   Try:

   uunet!f3.n2.z1.fidonet.org!John.Smith

        Tim

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