Re: what to do with <@a,@b,@c:u@h>

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From: Jos Vos
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 10:09

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mcclure@viper.cs.unm.edu (Brent McClure) writes:

>We are re-working our sendmail configuration, and our mail relay 
>host currently attempts to route addresses of the form:

><@a,@b,@c:u@h> 

>to "a", however from what I've been reading from several places 
>it sounds like many sites are simply throwing away the source-route and
>resolving straight to "u@h".  Is this the recommended practice
>now and/or is there any harm in this?

No and yes.  You should route to "a".  I'm not sure whether it's forbidden
to route to "h" directly (although I think it is), but it's certainly
wrong to give up when that does not succeed i.s.o. routing to "a" then.

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--    Jos Vos <jos@bull.nl>   (UUCP: ...!{uunet,mcsun,sun4nl}!nlbull!jos)
--    Bull Nederland NV, Product Support Unix, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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