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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: More routing question information
Message-ID: <1990Dec31.215700.1441@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 31 Dec 90 21:57:00 GMT
References: <1990Dec29.182422.8788@kithrup.COM>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Lines: 31

In article <1990Dec29.182422.8788@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:

>I guess I didn't make myself terribly clear, since a couple of people have
>told me the same information.

>All but a handful of my outgoing mail goes through ucscc.  Since I'm running
>mmdf, I have things set up very nicely (i.e., I don't run pathalias).  The
>problem is people who mail to *me*.  If they are running pathalias, the mail
>gets routed through the sco somehow, not ucscc (which is about 8 times
>quicker).  *uunet* routes mail to kithrup.uucp through sco, instead of uucp.

>One person told me to get a registered domain.  I do:  kithrup.com.

If you send mail to kithrup.com it should go to where your mx record
sends it (i.e. off-internet sites would send to an internet gateway
to resolve it).  If you send to kithrup.uucp, it is resolved through
the uucp maps at sites that use the maps (this includes uunet).
There is no particular reason for anyone to think that kithrup.uucp
and kithrup.com have anything to do with each other - only you and
your internet forwarder know for sure.

>Now, is there some magic I can put into my map entry (or a forged map entry
>for ucscc, which I would prefer not to do) which will stop messages being
>routed through sco?

Just tell people to use the kithrup.com address.  If you are talking
about replies to your mail, then you need to get the domain name into
your From: lines.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us