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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: sigh (was Re: Short-circuiting a route)
Message-ID: <3842@phri.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jul 89 12:51:11 GMT
References: <1062@aber-cs.UUCP> <59767@uunet.UU.NET> <3648@ncar.ucar.edu>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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In article <3648@ncar.ucar.edu> woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) writes:
> Do we want mail routing to be optimal or correct? I prefer to err on the
> side of correctness, so I don't reroute explicitly-specified bang paths.

	We don't currently reoute uucp mail here except for some minor
internal trickery; you can submit a bang path to any of our non-uucp
machines and they will forward it via SMTP to our uucp gateway.  We run IDA
sendmail here, which has all the needed hooks to do pathalias database
lookups in the MTA layer, but I still want to provide the option of letting
people explicitly route uucp mail if they want.  I was thinking of not
touching bang paths at all but doing lookups on person@host.UUCP type
addresses.  Does this seem reasonable?
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