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From: kehres@touch.touch.com (Tim Kehres)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: problem with uucp-originated mail
Message-ID: <198@touch.touch.com>
Date: 10 Dec 90 21:59:27 GMT
References: <9812@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <1990Dec6.234758.28937@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Organization: Touch Communications Inc, Campbell, CA
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In article <1990Dec6.234758.28937@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
:
text regading how rmail looks for bang characters (!) to determine the remote
machine name....

>  Solutions:
> 
> 	Best solution - change the mac software to use 'host!user'
> 	or even 'host.UUCP!user' rather than 'user@host.UUCP'

I would have to strongly disagree with you here.  If a host is passing valid
domain style addresses, then rmail should accept them.  Forcing old UUCP style
addressing on a community simply because of a single broken piece of software
in my opinion is not justified.

My main disagreement here is not about the two options presented, only the
classification of the above as the "best" solution.

BTW, the BSD code for rmail (old version) is pretty simple to go through and
modify.  I have a version of rmail with the changes made, and assuming there
are no licensing issues (I believe the source is in several public archives
already), I would be happy to send to anyone who needs it.

Regards,

Tim Kehres