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From: molnar@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Tom Molnar)
Date: Mon, 4-Jan-88 22:02:59 EST
Message-ID: <1988Jan4.220259.11381@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: ont.uucp
Subject: Re: UUCP <-> BITNET Gateways (digest of replies)
References: <4391@mnetor.UUCP> <1987Dec22.095006.1896@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <1987Dec30.032602.14732@lsuc.uucp> <1988Jan4.111636.3954@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: molnar@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Tom Molnar)
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tomwest@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Tom West) writes:

# molnar@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Tom Molnar) writes:
# >I am curious.  It is easy enough to send mail from UUCP to BITNET
# >via some local gateway, but what sort of schemes have people come up
# >with to RECEIVE mail from BITNET to UUCP?
# 
#   Well, it may only apply to U of T, but atmospheric physics gets BITNET mail
# by using the address atmosp.utoronto which sends the bitnet mail to UTORONTO
# which is smart enough to forward it to us.  I am not sure whether this 
# capability exists off the U of T ethernet.

Just to set the record straight, it is utgpu that does all the work
gatewaying mail between the UofT campus network and BITNET.  utgpu is
known as utorgpu on NetNorth/BITNET.  UTORONTO is an IBM VM/CMS machine
that acts as the RSCS gateway for UofT.  As far as mail is concerned,
UTORONTO is mostly a relay machine at this point.  It does not have an
intelligent mailer.  It simply punts mail it receives with the .utoronto 
tag to utgpu for resolution.  utgpu will in turn strip off the .utoronto
tag and will then resolve the remaining address.

A byproduct of this is that utgpu/utorgpu can act as a mail
gateway/router for BITNET sites that are capable of handling an address
with one or more periods in it and is longer than 8 characters...
-- 
Tom Molnar
Unix Systems Group, University of Toronto Computing Services.
