Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!van-bc!cynic!curt From: curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt J. Sampson) Subject: Re: Smail 2.5 and Domain Addressing Organization: Mad Artists' Technological Hangout Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1991 20:27:43 GMT Message-ID: <1991Mar22.202743.20129@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca> References: <3426@litchi.bbn.com> In article <3426@litchi.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes: > > Somebody is sending out very illegal addresses. There is no such thing as > a .UUCP domain, so there is no .UUCP registration authority, so there is no > one to register cynic.uucp as a domain within .uucp. > > Your best bet is to bounce the mail back to the sender with a note explaining > things. I did find out that .uucp is a "fake" domain, and thus cannot have subdomains. The problem was caused by one of the sites that I feed assuming otherwise and sending out stuff from user@gallifrey.cynic.uucp. I have informed him of this and fixed the problem. Incidently, I also figured out how to fix my smail problem and learned a lot about domains and internet mail in the process. Thanks to all who helped. cjs -- | "It is actually a feature of UUCP that the map of curt@cynic.uucp | all systems in the network is not known anywhere." curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca | --Berkeley Mail Reference Manual (Kurt Schoens)