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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Mail Replies Getting Lost?
Message-ID: <3076@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 2-Jul-84 13:55:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.3076
Posted: Mon Jul  2 13:55:29 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Jul-84 03:43:09 EDT
Organization: Ballistics Research Lab
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If I send uucp mail which does not get delivered, should I be receiving
some sort of "error messages" or feedback to tell me this? I can receive
mail from the uucp community with no problem; when I reply to it, it
seems to be transmitted OK. I get no problem reports from mailers or
other feedback, but I also get no response from the addressees. As far
as I can tell, it goes into a formless grey sink somewhere and vanishes.

I have recently taken to adding postscripts to my messages which reply
to uucp mail, requesting the addressee acknowledge receipt by dropping
a brief note in return. I have never received any such acknowledgement,
so I strongly suspect that the mail is not getting delivered.

Let me describe what my mail situation is; it is admittedly unusual.
My main account is on a MILNET host, "wmartin@almsa-1". I have uucp
access through brl, and have the uucp address of "seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin".
Mail delivered to that account is automatically forwarded over the MILNET
to me at my wmartin@almsa-1 address, which is also a UNIX machine. I
read this mail with msg, which is a user-interface that comes with the
mmdf package.

I can reply to messages from uucp senders; the route is from almsa-1
to brl or to seismo, via the MILNET/ARPANET, and thence into uucp-land.

Perhaps there are gateway authorization problems causing the mail
to get rejected, but I never see any reject notices. Anybody know
reasons for mail to get eaten along these paths?

Will Martin