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From: gamiddleton@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
Subject: Re: smail-2.5 fix for domain gateway routing
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.061830.19719@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Advanced Dangerous Projects Division, Biohazard Associates
References: <1991Jan14.234354.8055@eci386.uucp>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 91 06:18:30 GMT
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In article <1991Jan14.234354.8055@eci386.uucp> woods@eci386 (Greg A. Woods) writes:
> Here's the problem, as told by Mark Moraes <moraes@cs.toronto.edu>:
> 
> 	When looking up "foo.xenitec.on.ca", first look it up as is.
> 	If matched, replace the %s in the path with username.  Else,
> 	remove the first domain component (foo) and look up
> 	".xenitec.on.ca".  If that matches, replace the %s in the path
> 	with THE FULL DOMAIN NAME AND username.  I.e:
> 
> 		lsuc!utai!watmath!foo.xenitec.on.ca!user
> 	NOT
> 		lsuc!utai!watmath!user
> 
> 	smail2.5 interprets it the latter way, which is wrong.

I think it would be nicer if the result was

	lsuc!utai!watmath!xenitec!user

That way, I could use smail on watmath to decide that foo.xenitec.on.ca was a
local connection, instead of having to embed that information in my
sendmail.cf file.