Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: ont.uucp
Subject: Re: Need correct mail address - AT&T
Message-ID: <3569@becker.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 90 22:35:15 GMT
References: <20520@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1443@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Distribution: ont
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <1443@maytag.waterloo.edu> gamiddon@maytag.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) writes:
|In article <20520@watdragon.waterloo.edu> mskucherawy@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Murray S. Kucherawy) writes:
|> I received a message from a user at AT&T, and my mailer doesn't
|> like the address he sent. Please send me a mail address in 
|> INTERNET/ARPANET format (ie. user@site). His address, as it appeared
|> in his .signature is uunet!attcan!bob.
|
|This is surprising, since dahlia's mailer does understand how to send a
|message to uunet.

	Indeed. I believe we need a fair bit more
	detail in order to diagnose the problem,
	such as what kind of system & O/S, the type
	of mailer, the error message in question,
	etc.

	A lot of general advice seems to have been
	given which may cause random problems, to wit,
	addresses with "%" will break in many mail
	transfer agents, and addresses containing
	both "!" and "@" are ambiguous in their
	interpretation.

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