Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!asjl From: Andy.Linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andy Linton) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Sendmail 5.65+IDA and the UK Message-ID: <1990Nov11.203113.1002@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Date: 11 Nov 90 20:31:13 GMT References: <1990Nov8.103002@ap.co.umist.ac.uk> Sender: news@comp.vuw.ac.nz (News Admin) Reply-To: Andy.Linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz Organization: Computer Science Dept, Victoria Univ, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: tinakori.comp.vuw.ac.nz Originator: asjl@tinakori.comp.vuw.ac.nz In article <1990Nov8.103002@ap.co.umist.ac.uk>, jf@ap.co.umist.ac.uk (John Forrest) writes: |> PS. I know New Zealand people used the grey book as well, so they |> might have the |> same problem? We have solved this problem in the only sensible way there is - we have thrown the Grey Book ordering in the bin. I have no desire to resurrect the old ordering debate - I heard all the arguments when I was postmaster at Newcastle upon Tyne - but please don't start adding all that nonsense into sendmail. It is complex enough. If the rumours that I hear about the impending arrival of TCP/IP and proper Internet connections in the UK are true, then the addition of Grey Book format names into the DNS will cause confusion and grief to all concerned. The sensible solution when this happens is to drop the use of Grey Book ordering and choose the format used by the majority of the world. Until the Grey Book name style disappears, the proper thing to do is to reverse the orders inside sendmail.cf, treat RFC822 ordering as the canonical form and rewrite in Grey Book form only when necessary. Surely Jim Crammond's UK Sendmail 2.1(?) has rules for this or contact the current