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>
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  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.