I believe that the reason for this failure is that DISTribute is uppercasing the userid, and since UUCP is case sensative, it fails. Bill >What do you think about this nice UNIX gateway, which forwards interactive >messages to UUCP only to complain that the path you specified was incorrect, >you naughty boy, and to send you back a BSMTP REPLY in a file? I got 6 of >these already /Eric > >/../ >Received: by talcott.harvard.edu; Wed, 14 Oct 87 13:30:45 EDT >Date: Wed, 14 Oct 87 13:30:45 EDT >From: [log in to unmask] (Mail Delivery Subsystem) >Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown >To: [log in to unmask] > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >bad system name: AMES >uux failed. code 68 >550 AMES!ORA;nopath... Host unknown