a SIMPLE question about routing

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From: Chris Gatenby
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:30

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Hi,
This is a v. simple question to all you sendmail gods, that will hopefully make you
feel good in answering it off the top of your heads:
We have a Sparc which is connected to name server, and so any mail that is sent to a
resolvable name will be sent correctly. However, not all mail addresses have IP 
numbers associated with them. In these cases the mail bounces with the message 
"host unknown".
If this occurs, our work around is to send mail via a more intelligent machine using
this format:
prompt% mail username%computer.domainaddress@intelligent-machine-address
instead of the usual
prompt% mail username@computer.domainaddress

So, I would like to know if there is a simple fix to sendmail.cf to send all mail via
the intelligent machine, or maybe just the bounced mail. It would seem to me that this
is a one line fix, but I haven't found it yet.

Thanks in advance,
Chris Gatenby
gatenb@mrisun.med.yale.edu

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From: gatenb@mrisun.med.yale.edu (Chris Gatenby)
Subject: a SIMPLE question about routing
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