New E-mail Addressing Option for Jove and Sol Systems

By Marc St.-Gil, VAX/UNIX Administrator (mstgil@unt.edu)

You can now send E-mail to Jove users from Sol by simply specifying their User-ID and vice versa on Jove. In the past it was necessary to specify the User-ID and host as userID@jove.acs.unt.edu to send E-mail to a Jove user from a Sol account. The same was true of userID@sol.acs.unt.edu for Jove users sending E-mail to Sol. We now have a system in place that will automatically forward E-mail for a user to the correct host for that User-ID regardless of whether you send it from Jove or Sol. Please note that this only applies to mail being sent to Jove or Sol from Jove or Sol. In other words, you still have to specify userID@ponder.csci.unt.edu to send E-mail to a user on the Computer Science system Ponder and Ponder users will still have to specify userID@jove.acs.unt.edu to send E-mail to Jove users. One side effect of this is that you don't have to remember which system a user has his/her account on, you can just send E-mail to userID@jove.acs.unt.edu from other Internet systems and Jove will forward the E-mail to Sol if necessary. I specify Jove in the above example because that is where all of our Jove and Sol users will soon be receiving their E-mail, and until then, autoforwarding to Sol users is ready and working.


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