How do I mail from an Internet to a uucp site?

Arthur S. Kamlet ask at cbnews.ATT.COM
Thu Sep 14 07:25:41 AEST 1989


In article <726 at larry.sal.wisc.edu> jwp at larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival) writes:
>I'm sitting here at my Ultrix Internet site and I get mail
>from a!b!user at foo.edu...
>
>How do I mail back to this user?  I have not found the right combo
>of backslashes, percents, and so on to please my mailer.


It's unfortunate that some system mailer has
mixed "!" and "@" addresses.  That's major trouble.

What you need to do is figure out how to properly parse that address
into either a "!" or "% @" type address, and then parse it yourself.

I prefer "!" addressing, so I might guess

 a!b!user at foo.edu

should be parsed as

 foo.edu!a!b!user

and that's a perfectly good looking mail address.  Unfortunately,
it could be completely wrong.   The correct parse might have been

 a!b!foo.edu!user

or even something else.   Whenever you find mixed "!" and "@" you
must make a good educated guess, and stick with all of one type.
-- 
Art Kamlet  a_s_kamlet at att.com  AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus



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