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Article #599Re: smail-2.5 fix for domain gateway routing
From: Guy Middleton
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 1991 06:18
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 1991 06:18
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In article <1991Jan14.234354.8055@eci386.uucp> woods@eci386 (Greg A. Woods) writes: > Here's the problem, as told by Mark Moraes <moraes@cs.toronto.edu>: > > When looking up "foo.xenitec.on.ca", first look it up as is. > If matched, replace the %s in the path with username. Else, > remove the first domain component (foo) and look up > ".xenitec.on.ca". If that matches, replace the %s in the path > with THE FULL DOMAIN NAME AND username. I.e: > > lsuc!utai!watmath!foo.xenitec.on.ca!user > NOT > lsuc!utai!watmath!user > > smail2.5 interprets it the latter way, which is wrong. I think it would be nicer if the result was lsuc!utai!watmath!xenitec!user That way, I could use smail on watmath to decide that foo.xenitec.on.ca was a local connection, instead of having to embed that information in my sendmail.cf file.
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Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs,comp.mail.uucp,can.uucp,can.usrgroup Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!gamiddleton From: gamiddleton@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) Subject: Re: smail-2.5 fix for domain gateway routing Message-ID: <1991Jan23.061830.19719@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Organization: Advanced Dangerous Projects Division, Biohazard Associates References: <1991Jan14.234354.8055@eci386.uucp> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 91 06:18:30 GMT Lines: 22