>If I'm stupid give me one on the head but ... >JIM: the problem is not that there is no Real Name in the address but >that there is not ANY valid E-mail address to reply to. In your case it >would work if I truncate POSTMASTER to POSTMAST (if BITEARN NODES is >correct ...) - but if there is no POSTMAST account at your site .... >Christian Sorry if I wasn't clear on this. VMS allows userids >8 chars. Jnet under VMS handles this by sending the mail to the first 8 char match found in the VMSMAIL.DAT file. For this reason POSTMAST works. Also because of this we began limiting userids to 8 chars almost 2 years ago when we joined BITNET. It is indeed a valid e-mail address but mey not end up at the userid you intended unless that site has taken the same care with handing out their userids. Jim...