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From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: How to set up a domain using SMAIL?
Message-ID: <2548829A.20898@ateng.com>
Date: 27 Oct 89 16:30:17 GMT
References: <617@wang.UUCP>
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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According to fitz@wang.UUCP (Tom Fitzgerald):
>How can machines inside Fnord.COM have the same names as machines in the
>UUCP maps without confusing the smail running on [the gateway]?

As far as I know, there is no simple way to do what you want with Smail 2.5.

Possible solution #1:  Modify Smail to support multiple path files, each of
which is associated with a given domain.  Be sure that the "Fnord.COM" path
file is searched first for unqualified hostnames.

Possible solution #2:  Modify Smail to qualify unqualified hostnames before
doing path lookup; then if the qualified hostname isn't found, search for
the original unqualified hostname.

>Does anyone know if smail 3.* handles this any differently?

Smail 3 supports multiple path files.
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