Re: rtin: ... illegal character in hostname

[Remco van de Meent <remco@debian.org>]

Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote:
> When I reply to an author of an usenet posting using rtin, I get the
> following error message from our Mailserver:
> 
> |------------------------- Message log follows: -------------------------|
>  no valid recipients were found for this message
> |------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------|
>  Adrian Sieber \<Adrian.Sieber@unifr.ch\> ... illegal character in hostname
> |------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------|
> 
> Whats wrong with rtin?

The \'s are not supposed to be there, and the 2nd one causes the bounce.

It's known that rtin isn't that good in handling From: lines in some cases
when replying. Just edit the To: line of your message to contain just "To:
email@address.com", without those quotes and without the full name etc.


bye,
 -Remco