Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!ccnysci!jeffrey
From: jeffrey@ccnysci.UUCP (Jeffrey L Bromberger)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Second shot after TCP fails?
Summary: Can sendmail pass the message off to smail if SMTP fails?
Keywords: SMTP nameserver UUCP Smail
Message-ID: <2313@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jun 89 19:58:10 GMT
Reply-To: jeffrey@ccnysci.UUCP (Jeffrey L Bromberger)
Organization: City College of New York
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Here's an interesting question.  Let's say I send mail to
user@foo.bar.com, and sendmail's rulesets decide that this should go 
via SMTP.  The mailer tries to resolve the name foo.bar.com by 
talking to the appropriate nameservers on the network, but finds out 
that foo.bar.com is not a "fully qualified domain name" by network 
standards.  Is sendmail bright enough to try the UUCP approach (send 
the name off to smail for resolution) after the SMTP connection fails?  
By fails, I mean that there's no Internet number for the host, and not
that the connection was refused due to a high load average.  Maybe 
sendmail _can_ do this, but it's dependent on how the .cf file 
was created?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-- 
Jeffrey L. Bromberger
System Operator---City College of New York---Science Computing Facility
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