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I just noticed a small problem with our sendmail/smail/bind mail system
and I was wondering if anyone had seen this same problem.  We're running
this all on a Sun 3/50 with SunOS 3.5.

ndcheg is the main mail machine here in engineering.  We have several
machines connected on the ethernet with names that are NOT registered
in the uucp maps.  We'd like to keep it that way.

Now here's the problem.  Let's say one of our locally un-registered
machines is called 'jupiter'.  Here at ndcheg, we get uucp mail
for 

ndcheg!jupiter!username

Since this is coming in via uucp, and not sendmail, rmail (which
is really smail in disguise!) assumes that this is mail bound for
another uucp link and bypasses sendmail completely.  I quote from
the Read.Me file in the smail distribution:

  Features of smail include:
.
.
  (5) Mail being forwarded through your machine to another uux link is
      passed from rmail directly to uux, so there's less overhead on
      your machine (sendmail stays out of the loop.)

which is NOT what I'd like to happen.  What actually happens is that
smail looks up a path to a machine called jupiter in /usr/lib/uucp/paths.
This jupiter is NOT the jupiter that the mail is destined for.

Therefore, I'd like to disable this 'feature' and put sendmail
"back into the loop".  Anyone with any ideas on how to do this??

Thanks in advance.

	Evan Bauman
	Univ. of Notre Dame
	evan@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu
	evan@ndcheg.uucp


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