From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!tektronix!tekecs!stevenm
Newsgroups: net.mail
Title: Bogus Network paths
Article-I.D.: tekecs.569
Posted: Fri Mar  4 11:34:16 1983
Received: Fri Mar 11 06:45:19 1983


I am having a real problem with replying to mail sent me over the network.
It seems that any mail which goes through 'ucbvax', 'decvax', 'cbosg',
'ihnss' and a number of other places winds up with bogus addresses of
the following form:

	From: tektronix!ucbcad!burl!lda@floyd.uucp

(This is presumably ucbcad!floyd!burl)

I can sometimes figure out how to return mail to these people, but
my mailer completely throws up, generating


	To: tektronix!ucbcad!burl!lda at FLOYD.UUCP

which doesn't work at all.

I have no idea what the path to these people are:

	From: tektronix!ucbcad!harpo!hou5f!dmk@decvax.uucp
	From: teklabs!decvax!ucbvax!inuxc!nwuxc!otuxa!jlc@ihnss.uucp


	From: tektronix!teklabs!ucbvax!rvax.mailer-daemon@unmvax.uucp


These are not the worst. I have gotten messages with two or more
'@' in them, and messages with random mixtures of '@' and '!', e.g.

	'teklabs!ucbvax!person@site1!site2@decvax.uucp'

This is hopeless.

Any suggestions?

S. McGeady
Tektronix, Inc.

ucbvax!teklabs!stevenm
decvax!teklabs!stevenm
tektronix!tekecs!stevenm
stevenm@tektronix
stevenm.tektronix@RAND-RELAY
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	.
	.
	.
	(sigh)