Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!epiwrl!epimass!jbuck From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: question on mail to UUCP sites Message-ID: <2257@epimass.EPI.COM> Date: 2 Jul 88 03:43:28 GMT References: <261@isl.stanford.edu> Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 41 In article <261@isl.stanford.edu> bill@isl.UUCP (Bill Moore) writes: >I'm bill@isl.stanford.EDU" place, meaning (I think) that I'm on the ethernet. >I want to send mail to user@site.UUCP. Any suggestions? Please reply >by e-mail if possible. Thank you. Your address, since it is a domain address, doesn't say anything about whether you are on the Arpanet, a local Ethernet, or are a UUCP-only site. It means that there is a domain registry named .stanford.edu that knows how to reach your site. Many sites with domain addresses are not reachable by TCP/IP from the Internet. Also, many sites on the Internet have old mailers and don't understand domains, but expect every site to appear in the host table. These sites need to use the "magic %" convention to go through a gateway: UUNET is the most heavily used gateway for UUCP sites, though there are others. .UUCP is a "fake" domain, but it has a well-defined de facto meaning: the site by that name in the official UUCP map. If the site in question is on the UUCP map, you can reach them by mailing to user%site.UUCP@uunet.uu.net If they aren't, you're out of luck; if they just got news source from somebody and didn't register their site, the routers can't find them. >PS Why does it say bill@isl.UUCP above? I'm clueless, can anyone explain >what's going on? As posted, "rn" assumes your domain is ".UUCP". In your case it isn't. It's an easy change to the Rmail and Pnews shell scripts to fix this. Pester your system administrator until he or she changes it to ".stanford.edu"; otherwise our replies to your articles will not work. -- - Joe Buck {uunet,ucbvax,pyramid,}!epimass.epi.com!jbuck jbuck@epimass.epi.com Old Arpa mailers: jbuck%epimass.epi.com@uunet.uu.net If you leave your fate in the hands of the gods, don't be surprised if they have a few grins at your expense. - Tom Robbins