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From: heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: how to configure routing
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Date: 18 Sep 90 17:09:25 GMT
Sender: heiser@sud509.ed.ray.com (Bill Heiser - Unix Sys Admin @ Raytheon Company, Sudbury MA)
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I've just set up a new uucp site, and want to learn how to configure 
mail routing.  I'm running Sysvr3 (Esix) on an 80386 system.  What
I want to be able to do is this:

My system name is unixland. (unixland.uucp)
My mailhost is 'world.std.com'.

- Using /bin/mail, /bin/mailx, etc, send mail to any site using the
  '@' notation that I can use from systems like 'world' and at work.
  
- make mail and mailx use sendmail;  I have elm using sendmail, but
  not everyone that uses my system will want to use elm (and I don't
  always want to myself)

- When I get inbound mail, it has From: addresses that look something
  like this:  world.std.com!someuser@some.domain
  I should be able to REPLY to thse - right now I have to use elm
  and manually chop off the .std.com part.  

- When I send mail to other systems, the From: address they see 
  looks something like unixland!user@UUNET.UU.NET.  That apparently is
  because lots of my mail routes thru there.  In order for pepole to
  be able to reply to me (so that it works) and so that it has the
  lowest cost for me and my mailhost, the return address SHOULD look
  somehting like this:  user%unixland.uucp@world.std.com.

- When I send outboudn mail, it should automatically forward any
  non-local (anything not destined for a user locally on unixland) to
  world to be resolved.  If I manually address things as 
  world!user@some.domain, it works usually (but sometimes says 
  some.domain, unknown system).  I should be able to say 
  user@some.domain, and have it be smart enough to know that it MUST
  route thru world to get there.

I guess this will be more complicated when/if I get additional mailhosts.
But for now, this is it, so it shouldn't be TOO complicated (should it?)
Should I be using 'smail'?  How about that program that deals with
comp.mail.maps (forget the name)??

Thanks in advance for your ideas on how to set this up.

Bill

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