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From: kabra437@pallas.athenanet.com (Ken Abrams)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Questions about smail.
Message-ID: <298@pallas.athenanet.com>
Date: 24 Feb 90 23:15:22 GMT
References: <58@dynasys.UUCP>
Reply-To: kabra437@pallas.UUCP (Ken Abrams)
Organization: Athenanet, Inc.,  Springfield, Illinois
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In article <58@dynasys.UUCP> jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher) writes:
>I just started running smail and I was wondering about a few things.
>root keeps getting messages from adm about smail.  They are normally
>empty.  How can I stop these?  The next one may become a problem.
>smail seems to put my address as "jessea@dynasys.UUCP".  There are a
>lot of mailers that are either not set up to handle internet
>addressing or don't have the capability.  Is there any way I can have
>give uucp addressing?  Ex:  dynasys!jessea   or even the full path
>name?  Thanx in advance.
>
I have been dropping a few posts here and there trying to get a definitive
answer to this and other related "net" addressing problems for the last
month or so.  Guess I have been leaving them in the wrong areas because
I haven't gotten any good information yet.  My SYSADM has managed to fix
smail so that it puts a proper return address in our mail messages
(sorry, I don't know exactly what he did).  As you can see by the header
of this message, we have not been able to apply a similar fix to rn as it
still shows our addresses in the xxx@yyy.UUCP format.
I suspect that this is a BIG problem for lots of folks on the net since
it also causes me trouble in sending mail replies to addresses in this
format (they don't make it out of my machine).  If a poster doesn't leave
a full path address, it is sometimes impossible to reply via mail.
I would like to see a periodic (monthly) post similar to those in newuser
explaining this address mess but so far haven't been able to locate
anyone able (or willing) to do it.

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Ken Abrams                     uunet!pallas!kabra437
Illinois Bell                  kabra437@athenanet.com
Springfield                    (voice) 217-753-7965