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From: sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Sorry about no mail
Message-ID: <136@stech.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Aug-87 06:25:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: stech.136
Posted: Sat Aug 22 06:25:35 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Aug-87 16:02:30 EDT
References: <226@dbase.UUCP>
Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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in article <226@dbase.UUCP>, drc@dbase.UUCP (Dennis Cohen) says:
> 
> 
> Like he said, neither I nor my employer's software seem capable of reversing
> mail paths correctly.  Everything I try to send in the way of mail comes back
> (usually without leaving the facility) as undeliverable.  I have found that a
> reply to a news item has about a 40% chance of making it out, but a reply to
> mail is at 0%.
> 
> Dennis Cohen
> Ashton-Tate Glendale Development Center
> dBASE Mac Development Team


I've got the same problem, but I'm learning how to figure out correct mail
paths myself, and then am forwarding mail manually.  The strategy is this:

First, I user a mailer (elm) to automatically attempt to send a dummy
message.  It almost always comes back, but at least the uucp response tells
me the entire path by which the original message came.  Then I look for a
couple of gateway systems that I know how to reach (in my case, it's 
seismo and ihnp4).  If those two systems are _anywhere_ in the path, then
I can construct a valid mail path, since seismo and ihnp4 can accept
addresses with non-! characters in them.    

Since I've been doing this, mail hasn't been coming back!  I'm in trouble,
however, if I end up with a path that hasn't come by either of those
gateway systems ....


Jan Harrington, sysop
Scholastech Telecommunications
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