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

[Gene Heskett]

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.

-- 
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