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michi@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au (Michael Henning) writes:
 > 
 > >1.3 sites need only have:
 > >	forward	*.			N=basser.D=cs.O=su.P=oz.C=au
 > 
 > Well, that is what I had in my commandsfile all along, except that I was
 > forwarding to bunyip. My sendmail.cf passes "user@archie.au" to the
 > MHSnet mailer with user part "user" and destination part "archie.au".
 > 
 > Given the above entry in the commandsfile, the message should have been
 > delivered correctly, but instead we saw the infamous routing loop.
 > 
 > Question: How can I determine which version of MHSnet I am running?

Run the command "netstate -o|tail -1".

An easier way for 1.3 sites is to use "netparams -n"

 > The man pages all have a "(1.2)" at the top, so that leads me to conclude
 > that we are running 1.2, which would also explain why the routing loop
 > *did* occur.

Yes, the manual pages are a very good indication :-)

 > On the other hand, netstate quite happily accepts commands of the form
 > "forward *. [region]", which leads me to conclude that we must be running
 > 1.3, otherwise I would get an error. Which is correct?

After searching deperately for a 1.2 site near me, I discover, to my chagrin,
that 1.2 *does* accept this form -- and then ignores it. It's a bug, please
accept my apologies.

As a general rule (which would have caught this kind of bug), please use
the command "netaddr -rv <address>" to test that mods to "commandsfile" are
having their intended effect.
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