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Re: user@relay!host aliases???

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From: Frederick M. Avolio
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1992 13:48
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user@relay!host is not defined.  That is to say the  address is illegal because
it is ambiguous.  At least to me :-).  What do you really want to do?
A ! on the RHS of a @ is undefined.

I'm a good sendmail reference.  There are others :-).

host!user@relay is defined ... means send to relay and relay sends to host for
user.

If you want to send uucp to relay then to user on relay from a uucp host
usually we address it as host!relay!user and host recognizes that relay is
an IP connected node.  In fact since a hostname  should have a domain
it is easy to get the uucp host to recognize that host.domain!user should
be changed to user@host.domain.

But you still cannot have an address with a ! as the right-most operator
end with a hostname.

f
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From: avolio@dco.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio)
Subject: Re: user@relay!host aliases???
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