🚀 go-pugleaf

Now that we have uucp addresses that look just like internet
addresses, there is a problem in making one's "sendmail.cf" figure out
when to dispatch a piece of mail to the tcp mailer and when to
dispatch it to the uucp mailer.  Sendmail, as far as I know, can't be
configured to check with "named" to see if a mail address is an
internet address or not.  It only allows you to have "named"
canonicalize an internet address.  jbs here figured out that to check
if an address is an internet address, you can add a "." to the end of
the address and then have sendmail canonicalize it.  If it wasn't an
internet address, the "." will stay there.  This is a kludge, though,
and it can also be kind of slow.

What's the right solution?  Also, where do I get a version of sendmail
for 4.3BSD that supports MX?  And who is responsible for making this
horrible decision that different zones should share the same top level
domains?

				|>oug /\lan


P.S.  Why won't won't sendmail let me put a rule like

	R$*<$*		$2

in the config file?  It keeps complaining about an unmatched "<".  If
it's going to complain about unmatched "<"'s in rewrite rules, then it
should parse nested angle-brackets propperly, and shouldn't allow
addresses with unmatched "<"'s into the system.  Because of this set
of misfeatures the parser will loop if some bozo hands it an address
like "<<<<<<<<<<foo@bar@baz@bax>>>>>>>>>>"

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