On Wed, 11 Mar 1992 13:15:00 EST John F. Chandler said:
>> >Your mail is being returned to you.
>> >Reason for return is:
>> >%MAIL-E-NOSUCHUSR, no such user MAILER at node SUVAX1
>> >Returned mail follows:
>> >------------------------------
>>
>> When sending mail to node STETSON I get the above error message!
>>
>> Does this imply that there is no MAILER running at SUVAX1?
>
>My guess is that SUVAX1 is the DECNET name of the BITNET node STETSON.
>As I understand it, DECNET names can't have more than 6 characters, so
>STETSON clearly can't be used on a DECNET.  Note that SUVAX1 is not
>defined on BITNET.  It obviously isn't running a MAILER (or it wasn't
>running on the day you got that complaint), but the XMAILER NAMES files
>says it is.  Unfortunately, mailers on VMS systems aren't generally true
>userids, just daemons, so there is likely to be no trace of the mailer
>if it happens to be down at the moment.
>                                       John
 
Well, this appears to be another problem with the VERS9203 NODUPD file.
The entry for STETSON reads:
 
REP STETSON :lastup.REP 19920206 WELLER@STETSON :servers1.MAILER@STETSON(MAIL,PU
 
Jim...