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- From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <BzzCvL.2tv@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- References: <BzJ21E.8uI@chinet.chi.il.us> <8DL9VB2w165w@willard.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:35:45 GMT
- Lines: 18
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- In article <8DL9VB2w165w@willard.UUCP> dawson@willard.UUCP (Willard Dawson) writes:
-
- >Just how do we go about monitoring the overall status of mail? I'd say
- >that there is no way to measure the general health of the net in this
- >regard.
-
- Obviously you can't check the health of every site that might want to
- send mail to you but if you have both a uucp name and a domain name
- you can check your forwarding from the internet by sending yourself
- messages in the form: path!to!forwarder!domain.name!you and
- path!to!forwarder!uucp_name!you. Or, send a message to an address
- that doesn't exist and wait for the bounce to come back. These don't
- actually test the DNS lookup, so you might also want to send through
- an different internet host to see if it can find your forwarder, but
- once that's working it is not likely to fail later.
-
- Les Mikesell
- les@chinet.chi.il.us
-