Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcdchg!chinet!les From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Imminent death of UUCP Zone predicted Message-ID: <1990Jul21.023246.3627@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 21 Jul 90 02:32:46 GMT References: <1990Jul16.202721.271@chinet.chi.il.us> Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX Lines: 41 In article karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu writes: >Why is it always _presumed_ that old, out-of-date things must be >perpetuated? When your car has to be replaced, do you buy the exact >same model you got last time? Begging your pardon, but my mail software is neither old nor out of date. It supports multiple binary attachments to messages and several other things that I don't want to give up just to get a dotted address in my From: line. I'm talking about AT&T's PMX-mailers and while I think the "enhanced" /bin/mail that comes with the pmx products has several problems, it is not trivial to drop in a replacement. I am doing it (with smail 3.1) but it hasn't been easy and there are still a few problems to solve.. This is at the national office of The American Farm Bureau, and I have also obtained a uunet connection and a domain name of fb.com. The Farm Bureau happens to be a federation, meaning that we don't really have control over the state offices and thus have to talk to all sorts of equipment to make everyone communicate. For example, one state has a model 43 teletype hanging off a KU-band 2 way satellite dish (weird, eh?), and another has a unix box running a similar AT&T mailer but they also have the X.400 extensions for communication with OfficeVision on their mainframes. Now, I'd like to provide all the state offices that have unix machines access to the "rest of the world" through uunet - in particular, lots of USDA people seem to hang out on BITNET. Physically, this is no problem - everyone can connect to the machine in DC via KU band satellite and it's a local call from there. The problem is, I'm willing to provide subdomain names for the states, but I can't force them to change their mailers to put it in their From: lines, and without it they aren't going to get any replies back. Now after hearing all the ranting about how easy it is to switch to a domain naming scheme, I want to know which software is (a) binary transparent and (b) knows how to rewrite "From:" lines into domain format based on the contents of the uucp From_ lines *and* the destination address. I'm not interested in "brute-force" tricks here - I can manage that on my own. What I want is a realistic answer about software available (for SysV) that knows as much about rewriting the header lines as the envelope To: address. The IDA sendmail enhancements seem to address this type of problem, but it doesn't look likely to work under SysV. Les Mikesell les@chinet.chi.il.us