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From: fenner@jazz.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Sending mail from BITNET to UUCP sites
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.111815.800@ecl.psu.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 91 15:18:13 GMT
References: <9103060344.AA22355@cs.wmich.edu>
Organization: Penn State University Mechanical Engineering Department
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In article <9103060344.AA22355@cs.wmich.edu> lin@CS.WMICH.EDU (Lite Lin) writes:
|
|Hello,
|  While trying to send messages from a BITNET site to some UUCP sites
|via UUCPGATE, I got the following error message.
|
|>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
| Received: from UUCPGATE.PRINCETON.EDU by UUCPGATE.PRINCETON.EDU (Mailer R2.08)
|  with BSMTP id 8068; Mon, 04 Mar 91 18:32:18 EST

This in itself is curious; there doesn't seem to be a machine called uucpgate
in the princeton.edu domain.

In any case, this means that the mailer at uucpgate.princeton.edu says:
| 554-Mail service is not available for .uucp

Which seems to imply that either they named their site very badly, or there's
something wrong.  I might suggest sending mail to
postmaster@uucpgate.princeton.edu.  (ignoring, of course, that
uucpgate.princeton.edu doesn't exist.)

|or maybe I should route the messages via uunet.uu.net?
Don't do this unless the person you're mailing to is a direct uunet customer.
They are not a general UUCP smarthost.

  Bill
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