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[Good informative Subject:, yes?]

I'm currently involved in putting UK-2.1 onto a network of eight IBM
6150 (aka PC/RT) "workstations" running AIX 2.2 (their System V.2 plus
extensions).  They are not running AOS, the 4.3bsd port.

I have a configuration whereby one of the machine acts as a uucp gateway
to the rest of the network which will use smtp.  The problem is in an
inability to parse addresses as follows:

The domain is called "cobuild.collins.co.uk".  I am using multihost.
Machine "hamlet" cannot expand "igb@lear" to
"igb@lear.cobuild.collins.co.uk" and cannot recognise
"igb@hamlet.cobuild.collins.co.uk" as local mail (even with a dedicated
local channel with the name hardwired in).  It can, however, queue mail
initially addressed to "igb@lear.cobuild.collins.co.uk" correctly. The
same problem applies to other machines on the network without the uucp
channel.  This essentially kills smtp mail as the name is expanded up on
the local side of the transfer and then rejected on the far side.

The problem as I see it is that in the first line of Ruleset Zero,
ruleset three is not called.  If I use sendmail on my System V machines
here, machine "pea" parsing "igb@pea" calls ruleset three.  On the RTs
machine "hamlet" when parsing "igb@hamlet" immediately proceeds to
ruleset sixteen.

Does anyone have any helpful hints, places I could ask, whatever?

ian