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From: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes)
Subject: Re: smail-2.5 fix for domain gateway routing 
Message-ID: <91Jan31.120410edt.467@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>
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References: <1991Jan14.234354.8055@eci386.uucp> <1991Jan23.061830.19719@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1991Jan30.195213.12815@eci386.uucp>
Date: 31 Jan 91 17:04:36 GMT
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In articles <1991Jan23.061830.19719@watdragon.waterloo.edu>,
<1991Jan24.030228.7639@iguana.uucp>, <1991Jan30.195213.12815@eci386.uucp>
"nicer" paths to xenitec have been suggested, possibly because of a
misunderstanding of what Greg and I were discussing by email.  (part of
which was quoted in <1991Jan14.234354.8055@eci386.uucp>).

We weren't discussing the path to xenitec -- we were discussing the way
smail-2.5 interprets (or misinterprets!) what it finds in pathalias
output for domain gateways.  xenitec was merely an example -- all data
was being quoted from Greg's pathalias output.  To restate my email to
Greg with a little more context:

If the pathalias output contains a line of the form

.xenitec.on.ca	lsuc!utai!watmath!%s

then smail-2.5 seems to route the address user@foo.xenitec.on.ca as
lsuc!utai!watmath!user, which is wrong.

For the pathalias output above, smail-2.5 should route
user@foo.xenitec.on.ca as lsuc!utai!watmath!foo.xenitec.on.ca!user.
Whether this is optimal or convenient is beside the point! :-)

Greg's fix was intended to correct the bug in smail2.5.

	Mark.