Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!ge-dab!ge-rtp!edison!rja From: rja@edison.GE.COM (rja) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Sun isn't alone in having problems Message-ID: <1585@edison.GE.COM> Date: 10 Aug 88 11:27:15 GMT References: <10145@g.ms.uky.edu> <5120@zodiac.UUCP> Organization: GE-Fanuc North America Lines: 18 After reading about all the trouble Paul Vixie was having, it was interesting to have trouble reaching him myself. The culprit: decuac.dec.com The reason: decuac bounced mail from me headed for palo-alto.dec.com and claimed that palo-alto.dec.com doesn't exist. The reply-to: field was used to generate the address. The solution: I mailed the whole thing to vixie.UUCP Mind you I'm not defending Sun or attacking DEC. Reality is that the mail system isn't perfect yet and helpful pointing out of problems and having the responsible people respond to problems improves the system. I'm sure decuac will fix things and hope that Sun will try to upgrade their in-house software as David Herron @ U.Ky has suggested -- even if they don't make it a product yet.