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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs,comp.mail.uucp,can.uucp,can.usrgroup
Subject: Re: smail-2.5 fix for domain gateway routing
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.114641.5326@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 91 11:46:41 GMT
References: <1991Jan14.234354.8055@eci386.uucp> <1991Jan23.061830.19719@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1991Jan24.034941.3360@Sandelman.OCUnix.On.Ca>
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In article <1991Jan24.034941.3360@Sandelman.OCUnix.On.Ca> mcr@Sandelman.OCUnix.On.Ca (Michael Richardson) writes:

>  The IDA systems seems to prefer rabid-rerouting (it certainly makes
>it easier) but doesn't seem to insist upon it.

  This is not true.  The standard announced IDA package will not do any
rerouting other than deliberately chosen in user databases, and NEVER does
'rabid rerouting' -- i.e. never removes uucp hosts from the address.

  The package does to header simplification.  That is, it will change the
header address:  uunode1!uunode2!full.domain.name!user to
full.domain.name!user (which it may reformat as user@full.domain.name).
But this happens on HEADERS, not on the actual destinations which are in
the envelope.  It is based on the principal of using a simple address as
possible, but following the envelope recipient addresses so that manual
override is possible where needed.


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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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