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...