🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <374@eve>, butler@stsci.EDU (Lee A. Butler) writes:
> Re: trying to get smail to deliver: mymachine!localmachine!user to "user" on
> "mymachine".
> 
> Have you tried putting a line like this:
> 
> localmachine	%s
> 
> in your pathalias database?

This method is a sure ticket to disaster.  Since there is already a 'localmachine'
listed somewhere in the maps, putting this in path.local will assume that
we have a connection to the REAL "localmachine" and all the resultant
paths will be messed up.

As a followup to my original postings, I installed Greg Woods' small
patch to main.c in smail yesterday, tested it out, and it works
just fine.  There's a small increase in the overhead by calling sendmail
every time, but it's a small price to pay to make the EE's upstairs happy.

Dave Herron has a valid point when he says that we will be unable to mail
to the real "jupiter", but I don't think this will ever me necessary (I checked
the maps for all the conflicting names, and they are obscure machines).

Of course, had the EE's been a little more imaginative when assigning
names to their computers, this never would have been a problem!  Hmmm,
wonder if they read this newsgroup??

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