Re: format of .wrk files in spool/mqueue

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From: Stewart Brodie
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 00:00

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Tim Illingworth <tim@smof.demon.co.uk> writes:

>first line: the host that the message is to be delivered to

>post.demon.co.uk
>maillist-request@smof.demon.co.uk
>simon@geordie.demon.co.uk
>100144.3343@compuserve.com

>would be a legal .wrk file for a message forwarded by a mailing list
>at smof.demon.co.uk using post.demon.co.uk as a smart host, even
>though none of the four elements appears in the .txt file.

Somebody else pointed out that the first line is looked up in the DNS
for MX records first.

If this is the case, then how does it know whether the first line is a
mail domain or a smarthost?  Taking post.demon.co.uk as an example, it
has MX records pointing to a couple of the usual mail exchangers and
then office.demon.net (IIRC, maybe it's one of the other machines).

-- 
Stewart Brodie, stewart@wuzz.demon.co.uk
S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk  <-- prefer this one

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