Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

1579.0. "Using underscore, Recipient has invalid alternate MTS address;" by TOPPER::BARHAM (Norbert:) Thu Oct 08 1992 15:01

    ALL-IN-1 3.0
    
    In 3.0, my customer says that intermittently she cannot use underscore 
    addressing from ALL-IN-1 to VMS, e.g. TO: _KERNEL::BROWNL.
    
    I tried here and got a nice delivery failure error :-
    
                        I N T E R O F F I C E   M E M O R A N D U M
    
                                            Date:     07-Oct-1992 03:10pm GMT
                                            From:     Mail Postmaster
                                                      POSTMASTER
                                            Dept:
                                            Tel No:
    
    TO:  Clive Barham                         ( BARHAM )
    
    
    Subject: Delivery Failure Report
    
    ALL-IN-1 was unable to deliver your message dated 07-Oct-1992 03:06pm to
    
          _kernel::brownl   
    
              - Recipient has invalid alternate MTS address;
    
        on node GRDIAN              <--- why is the recipient not on KERNEL ??
                 
    
    
    
    I was sending from node GRDIAN (which in my case had DECNET phase V) to
    KERNEL, so I guessed it was a Decnet problem - indeed I cannot SET HOST 
    to KERNEL from GRDIAN. But the customer can.
    
    I see on page 4-8 of the 3.0 Mail Management Guide that this should
    still work. Can anyone confirm whether it does ?
    
    I see in OA$LIB:SPECIAL.COM that it does 
    
    $       MAIL/SUBJ=&SUBJ &FILE &TO
    
    Therefore, is it a VMS mail problem ?
    
    
    Any ideas welcome.
    
    Thanks
    
    Clive

Hi,

I have occasionally had this error message.  It is indeed a VMSmail problem.

If VMSmail cannot connect to the remote node, or if the remote recipient has
their VMSmail forwarded to another node which is unreachable, then sometimes
this error is generated.  I think it's just a catch-all error, hence doesn't
give you much useful info.

Scott

    Clive,
    
    Of course you should use user@mrgate@node since that gives you much
    nicer error messages and keeps retrying if a resource (such as a node)
    is unavailable.
    
    Underscore is really just there for other MTS systems other than
    VMSmail ... sound of a Dave Shove history lesson being typed (:==:)
    
    Regards,
    
    Andrew.D.Wicks