[Coco] Eric at peak at mail.polarcomm.com

[peak at mail.polarcomm.com]

Thanks Gene!
When I figure out what you are talking about I will try to 
fix it!
Eric


---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:46:44 -0500
>From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>  
>Subject: Re: [Coco] Eric at peak at mail.polarcomm.com  
>To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts 
<coco at maltedmedia.com>
>
>On Tuesday 06 January 2004 13:26, peak at mail.polarcomm.com 
wrote:
>>Maybe that is it bob. thanks.
>>I guess automatic mail reply routines put
>>peak at mail.polarcomm.com in the address line instead of
>>peak at polarcomm.com.
>>
>>>         p***@polarcomm.com
>>>
>>>**Not**  p***@mail.polarcomm.com
>>>
>>>Just trying to clear up the apparent confusion.
>>>
>>>Happy New Year all, btw. Life's been kicking me around
>>>a bit lately, so I'm keeping to myself a bit more than
>>>usual.
>>>
>>>Peace,
>>>Bob
>
>thats because the incoming message here, says
> From: peak at mail.polarcomm.com
>
>I've tried to reply to several of your messages and been 
bounced 
>everytime.  I came to the conclusion that you had it munged, 
and if 
>that was your choice, so be it.  I wasn't going to bother 
again until 
>your messages had a proper From: line composition.  I do not 
know 
>what email agent you are using, but if *you* didn't put that 
extra 
>"mail." in there, then its broken and you should use 
something else.
>
>I use kmail here, obviously a linux program, and quite 
decent IMO.
>
>If thats your own mail server, then settng up an alias so 
that 
>miss-addressed incoming mail would be routed correctly 
should be 
>trivial.  OTOH, you might have to register the 
mail.polarcomm.com 
>domain to get it to resolve in the DNS's too.  Ahh, I see 
that it 
>does resolve, at least for a ping:
>
>[root at coyote root]# ping mail.polarcomm.com
>PING mail.polarcomm.com (66.231.96.10) from 192.168.71.3 : 56
(84) 
>bytes of data.
>64 bytes from mail.polarcomm.com (66.231.96.10): icmp_seq=1 
ttl=237 
>time=73.9 ms
>
>Humm,  and then:
> 
>[root at coyote root]# ping polarcomm.com
>PING polarcomm.com (66.231.96.9) from 192.168.71.3 : 56(84) 
bytes of 
>data.
>64 bytes from www.polarcomm.com (66.231.96.9): icmp_seq=1 
ttl=237 
>time=74.0 ms
>
>Note the two adjacent addresses...  Looks like the mailer 
agent to me.
>
>But FYI, I'm replying only to the list.
>
>-- 
>Cheers, Gene
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