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From: hyc@starbarlounge.cc.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Rn mods
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Date: 23 Dec 87 16:30:20 GMT
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In article <376@n8emr.UUCP> lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) writes:
>
>I am in search of modifications to rn which would ENSURE that the address
>which appears in the To: field will work, barring outside factors (such
>as a machine in the uucp link being down due to hardware problems, etc.)
>
>A sample of the kind of bounce that I see quite often is appended.  I typed

Unfortunately, what you're asking for can't be done by a program at your
end. The problem is one (or both) of two things:
   1. itivax isn't set up to recognize chinet as a valid uucp host
   2. you're seeing a Usenet news path and assuming that a
      corresponding UUCP mail path exists. Usenet and UUCP aren't
      idempotent; you can't always assume that the route used by
      a news article will also work for UUCP mail, nor vice versa.
You'll probably wind up having to post a news article if you want to
get in touch with this person... Or send mail to itivax!postmaster
and get on their case to set up a real UUCP mail link to chinet...

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