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From: pricejk@lafcol.UUCP (Price Janet K)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: UUCP gatewaying to CSNET, BITNET, ARPANet, etc.
Message-ID: <102@lafcol.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 88 11:06:19 GMT
References: <101@mjbtn.UUCP>
Organization: Academic Computer Center, Lafayette College
Lines: 14
Keywords: UUCP, gateways, domains, pathalias
Summary: lowercase userids may need uppercase aliases

In article <101@mjbtn.UUCP>, root@mjbtn.UUCP (The Super User) writes:
> I have recently had a user request the ability to correspond with a colleague
> who is on CSNET.  I have also made some attempts to send mail back and forth 
> between a user on a BITNET site, but I could never get mail to come back to
> me here on UUCP.  Can anyone out there PLEASE give me a thorough lesson in
> addressing (using pathalias and domains) net mail between various networks.
> 
Another problem we have encountered with mail coming to UUCP from BITNET
is that recently some of it has been coming in with upshifted userids.
This didn't used to happen.  We have corrected this problem by adding
uppercase aliases.  We have used the same syntax for going to CSNET as
for going out to BITNET:  we simply specify the network following the
host name and separated with a period, as, for example, carleton.csnet
or amherst.bitnet.  CSNET mail seems to take longer than BITNET mail for
some reason.