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From: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Stuck with .UUCP forever?
Message-ID: <1320@avsd.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 89 16:37:25 GMT
References: <9426@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <300@capmkt.COM> <9436@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <233@ncis.tis.llnl.gov>
Reply-To: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
Organization: Metaprogrammers International
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mcb@ncis.tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch) writes:

>> Why is a uucp site unable to do mail forwarding?  Most do.

>This totally misses the point of the previous discussion.  "Forwarding", 
>in this contest, MEANS "Internet forwarding". A UUCP-only site, by definition, 
>is not on the Internet, and, ipso facto, is unable to do Internet forwarding.
>In order to do Internet forwarding you have to be ON the Internet, so
>that Internet hosts using the Domain Name System that receive MX
>records pointing at your host can contact you to send mail that is to
>be forwarded to the UUCP universe. It does not mean just "passing mail on".

What about playing with your sendmail.cf so that it recognizes Internet
addresses and forwards them to an Internet site that _can_ forward them,
in a classic Internet sense ?

>Michael C. Berch  
>News/mail admin, tis.llnl.gov systems
>mcb@tis.llnl.gov / uunet!tis.llnl.gov!mcb

-- richard

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