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From: gamiddle@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs,comp.mail.uucp,can.uucp,can.usrgroup
Subject: Re: smail-2.5 fix for domain gateway routing
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.195644.1342@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 8 Feb 91 19:56:44 GMT
References: <1991Jan14.234354.8055@eci386.uucp> <1991Jan23.061830.19719@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1991Jan24.034941.3360@Sandelman.OCUnix.On.Ca> <1991Jan30.195213.12815@eci386.uucp>
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In article <1991Jan30.195213.12815@eci386.uucp> woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods) writes:
> > 
> > In some other article someone else (gamiddleton?) said:
> > > I think it would be nicer if the result was
> > >
> > >	lsuc!utai!watmath!xenitec!user
> 
> And someone else also suggested:
> 
> 	lsuc!utai!watmath!xenitec!foo.xenitec.on.ca!user

This is probably most correct, I think.

> > And (gamiddleton?) continues:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > If you aren't the gateway, you shouldn't have to do anything.
> 
> Ah, but if I understand the map entries correctly, watmath *IS* the
> gateway!

Yes, that's right.  At least, we are the Internet MX forwarder.  xenitec seems
to be the gateway according to the uucp maps.  I have some local input to
pathalias which now seems to make smail give the correct paths, but that is
not the most elegant solution.