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From: rickert@CS.NIU.EDU (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: RFC-compliant UUCP mail
Message-ID: <9007271556.AA22915@cs.niu.edu>
Date: 27 Jul 90 15:56:41 GMT
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mark@DRD.Com writes:
>   We're an MX served uucp-only site.  I note that when mail originated from
>   here arrives at some recipient, transported via the good graces of our 
>   local friendly neighborhood internet gateway, the headers look like:
>
>   From drd!DRD.Com!user  (is this the From_ referred to above?)
>   From: user@DRD.Com
>

karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu replied with some good explanations, and
suggestions as to how the MX forwarder can be modified to add routing.

  If that is done, the mail will probably go out as

  From drd!DRD.Com!user@your.internet.gateway

 which is perfectly acceptable, but probably not what you wanted.

 If you are using a standard Sun sendmail.main.cf, try using the 'smartuucp'
 mailer to forward mail to the internet gateway.  Then experiment with changing:

  Msmartuucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=CmsDFMhuU, S=22, R=22, 

 to:

  Msmartuucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=CmsDFMhu, S=22, R=22, 

   In otherwords, try removing the 'U' from the end of the F= flags.  This
will remove the 'remote from drd' in the UUCP mail you send out with the
smartuucp mailer.  If the internet gateway machine can handle it, (it
probably can) your mail should then go out as

  From user@DRD.com

 which is probably what you wanted, and avoids all of the superfluous routing.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Sci Dept, Northern Illinois U., DeKalb IL 60115
  InterNet, unix: rickert@cs.niu.edu              Bitnet, VM: T90NWR1@NIUCS
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