[17278] in Athena Bugs
Re: Jonathon Weiss: forwading broken on athena workstations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Mon Oct 18 10:56:21 1999
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 10:55:20 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199910181455.KAA01018@antharia.mit.edu>
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: Tom Coppeto <tom@mit.edu>, Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>,
postmaster@mit.edu, network@mit.edu, bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: <199910181434.KAA29856@small-gods.mit.edu>
> While the first problem is under control for now, the second and third
> problems are more fundamental.
Actually, isn't the third problem (mail from local accounts uses
"username@machine") only in 8.2? Either way, it's fixable.
Also, Tom said:
> For mailers running non-mit.edu domains, we don't support this.
> We've been fairly consistent that while we don't police this
> activity, we will not go out of our way to make this work. I think
> this is such a case. Mailers representing sub-domains of mit.edu,
> such as lcs or media, do direct delivery.
We were talking about people on Athena workstations, sending mail from
non-MIT.EDU addresses, not people on non-Athena machines. (The bug
report was that if from an Athena workstation, you try to send mail
from a non-mit.edu address, it will bounce.)
-- Dan
