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From: terry@msdc.UUCP (Terry Countryman)
Newsgroups: net.mail,net.news.adm,net.news.sa
Subject: uucp mail vs. MMDF
Message-ID: <117@msdc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Nov-84 18:05:29 EST
Article-I.D.: msdc.117
Posted: Tue Nov 20 18:05:29 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Nov-84 19:02:00 EST
References: <1870@nsc.UUCP>, <1871@nsc.UUCP>
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Chuq's articles reminded me of a growing problem we are having
with uucp mail and sites running the MMDF mailer. Chuq's sendsys
article arrived here with this path:

> Path: gatech!nsc!chuqui@nsc.UUCP

And gatech (being on CSNET) is running MMDF (version 1 I think), and
it returned the sys file mail with this semi-nasty message:

> From gatech!mmdf Mon Nov 19 15:11:24 1984
> To: msdc!news
> Cc: postmaster
> Subject:  Illegal Address (nsc!chuqui@nsc.UUCP)
> 
> 	Your letter has been intercepted trying to access
> a restricted access host (e.g. an ARPANET host).  A copy
> of your letter has been sent to the system administrators.
> The text of your letter follows.
> 
>   --------------- Returned Mail Follows --------------
> >From news Mon Nov 19 14:23:26 1984 remote from msdc
> To: gatech!nsc!chuqui@nsc.UUCP
>         .
>         .
>         .
>   --------------- End of Returned Mail ---------------

It seems that MMDF does not know about the UUCP domain or it
just checks for the "@" and thinks that it is destined for the
ARPA domain.

With the growing number of sites running MMDF, it is getting
very difficult to get uucp mail to follow a return path to
an ARPAnet site.

Does anybody know if MMDF version 2 fixes this problem?

    Terry Countryman
    ...!{akgua,gatech,mcnc}!msdc!terry