At 4:56 PM +0000 20/11/01, Paul Chin wrote:
>This issue has also been raised at Hull. There is this uncertainty
>that anemail is delivered properly,which makes staff insecure about
>using email in
>Bb. If a student does not have a valid email address, Bb says it was posted
>OK but once it gets to the mail servers you know it won't get through. I
>wonder if anyone knows whether Bb have any plans to try to resolve this?
>However, as part of ongoing discussion at Hull there is the argument that Bb
>cannot be expected to be a fully blown email client, yet some have argued
>that if communication is a core feature of a V/MLE then surely the email
>option must work effectively. What do other people think?
Hello Paul
On a Solaris machine, e-mails to students go out with the sender's
e-mail address as the From: address. If the mail cannot be delivered
(eg, because the receiver's address is wrong), the sender gets a
bounce message at their e-mail address telling them the mail was not
delivered. If your mail system does not do this, I would suggest
getting another one that does, or running Blackboard on Solaris. This
is not really a problem with Blackboard.
Regards
David
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