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From: steve@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steve DeJarnett)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Short-circuiting a route
Keywords: sendmail, smail, domain names
Message-ID: <12167@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 28 Jun 89 17:01:22 GMT
References: <562@daitc.daitc.mil>
Reply-To: steve@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steve DeJarnett)
Organization: Lab Rat Rumpus Room -- Cal Poly SLO
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In article <562@daitc.daitc.mil> generous@daitc.daitc.mil (Curtis Generous) writes:
>More and more, I'm seeing UUCP mail going through my host of the format:
>
>	uucp1!uucp2!uucp3!domain.name!user
>
>Since we have both Internet and UUCP connections, what's the best way to 
>handle this situtation if your host is capable of sending mail directly to 
>'domain.name'?  Or should it be done?

	As it's been told to me (and from what I've read), it's always safe
to take the rightmost fully-qualified domain name and dump everything to the
left of it (in the bang-path sense).  Thus, in your sendmail.cf, you can put
in a rule that strips down to the rightmost FQDN when the address is composed
of UUCP bang-paths.  Thus, the above could be rewritten as:

	user@domain.name

Try the following (no guarantees, your mileage may vary, etc.) to do it:

# Transmorgrify
R$+!$+.$D!$+		$2.$D!$3			stuff!h.d!u => h.d!u
R$+.$D!$+		$@$2<@$1.$D>			h.d!u => u@h.d

>--curtis
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