Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site grkermi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!grkermi!eric From: eric@grkermi.UUCP (Eric N. Starkman) Newsgroups: net.mail,net.mail.headers Subject: Re: Handling %'s and forwarding mail Message-ID: <487@grkermi.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 09:17:19 EDT Article-I.D.: grkermi.487 Posted: Mon Jul 1 09:17:19 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 03:09:43 EDT References: <226@harvard.ARPA> Reply-To: starkman@mit-athena.ARPA (Eic N. Starkman) Distribution: net Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 31 Xref: watmath net.mail:904 net.mail.headers:493 Summary: In article <226@harvard.ARPA> kevin@harvard.ARPA (Kevin Crowston) writes: >If I get an address with %'s (e.g. xyz%cshost.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa) >what should I do with it? > >1) call up csnet-relay and say > RCPT TO:>2) call up csnet-relay and say > RCPT TO:<@csnet-relay.arpa:xyz@cshost.csnet> > >3) something else Call up csnet-relay and say RCPT TO: Though both of the things you have above *should* work properly anyway. > >What if I wanted to send all of my mail by forwarding it to a >local "smart" machine with a decent mailer and letting it do >all of the delivery? E.g. xyz is the smart machine; do I say > > RCPT TO:<@xyz.arpa:person1@site1.arpa,person2@site2.arpa> You should use a separate RCPT TO: line for each person to receive the message. RCPT TO: RCPT TO: You don't need to put the @xyz thing in...after all, XYZ knows its own name. -Eric Starkman ARPA: starkman@athena.MIT.EDU UUCP: ...{decvax}!genrad!panda!ens