Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!problem!skypod!scott From: scott@skypod.uucp (Scott Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: local site in a domain Message-ID: <1991Feb25.015842.25025@skypod.uucp> Date: 25 Feb 91 01:58:42 GMT References: <1991Feb23.154024.29925@mp.cs.niu.edu> Organization: Skypod Communications Inc., Toronto, Ontario Lines: 20 In article <1991Feb23.154024.29925@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: > If you send 'apple!user' to 'apple.uucp' then you should send >'mysite!apple!user' there also. Otherwise your software is badly broken. > > If some other site sends mail to you addressed to either 'apple!user' or >to 'mysite!apple!user', but you can't get it to the correct destination, then >the sending site is badly broken. If you send to apple!user it should go to whoever is listed as apple.uucp If you send to mysite!apple!user it should go to machine apple which talks to mysite (it need not be registered with anyone other than mysite). By explicitly putting mysite in front of apple you specify that mysite should resolve what apple is. This is how you get to unregistered sites. -- Scott J.M. Campbell scott@skypod.uucp Skypod Communications Inc. ..!uunet!scocan!skypod!scott 57 Charles St. West, #1310 ..!uunet!utai!lsuc!becker!skypod!scott Toronto, Ont. (416) 961-3847 ..!epas.utoronto.ca!nyama!skypod!scott