Subject: Problem sending mail to a profs user!

From: Michael S Hartman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 12:48:23 -0600 (MDT)

Can i send mail to profs??

The users node is ge1vm

the i.d. is  I106

I appreciate any help.

Thanks, Mike Hartman

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From: "Paul O. Bartlett" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 10:23:07 -0400

On 3 May 1995, Michael S Hartman wrote:

> Date: 3 MAY 1995 12:10:12 -0700 
> From: Michael S Hartman <[email-masked]>
> Newgroups: comp.mail.pine
> Subject: Problem sending mail to a profs user! 
> 

    The answer is yes.  I used to be a system programmer on IBM mainframe 
systems running PROFS, and we did it all the time.  Provided everybody is 
connected to the net and has all the addressing squared away, nothing 
special needs to be done.  Just treat a PROFS recipient like any other 
email address.

    You say the user's node is ge1vm.  That looks to me to be an 
insufficient address.  You probably need I106@ge1vm.<some-domain>.  You 
will need to find out the user's domain to make it work.  Then it should 
go with no further problems (if, as I say, everybody is hooked up).

    Just remembered.  Your system will need to know about the user's 
domain in your Domain Name System (DNS) tables, and his/her system will 
need to know about yours.  That's a system administrator function.

Paul