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From: fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: user@system.arpa syntax question
Message-ID: <472@dual.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-May-84 16:26:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  3 16:26:25 1984
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> How do I send mail (using regular System III /bin/mail) to someone
> whose 'Path:' looks like this:
> 
> floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!reiher@ucla-cs.arpa
> 
> Robert Perlberg
> Resource Dynamics Inc.
> New York
> philabs!rdin!perl

There are two catches to that address:

	1) SRI-UNIX does not gateway mail.

	2) seismo is also SEISMO.ARPA, and therefore takes `@' with a
		higher precedence than `!', so it will connect to UCLA-CS.ARPA
		and say, I have a letter for `hao!hplabs!sri-unix!reiher'
		which will lose.

What you want to do is this:

	floyd!harpo!seismo!reiher@UCLA-CS.ARPA

and given that the folks at Seismo don't object to playing gateway, you win.

	Mail Wizardry while U wait,

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucb-arpa.ARPA

	dual!fair@Berkeley.ARPA
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