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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Smail 2.5 and Domain Addressing
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.170109.318@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 12 Mar 91 17:01:09 GMT
References: <HZcky3w163w@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <HZcky3w163w@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca> curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) writes:

>My site is known as cynic.wimsey.bc.ca or cynic.uucp.  I sometimes get
>mail in for sites under me addressed to, say, gallifrey.cynic.uucp.
>Unfortunately, unless I explicitly put gallifrey.cynic.uucp in my paths
>file it ends up going back to my smarthost.

>Is there any way to get smail 2.5 to take anything of the form
>xxx.cynic.uucp or xxx.cynic.wimsey.bc.ca, try and uux it to xxx!user,
>and bounce it if the system is not known to my uucp?

Smail 3.1 can be given a list of domain names to remove before searching
for a hostname so you can get this behaviour pretty much automatically.
With Smail 2.5, you would probably have to maintain the exact names
in your paths file.  It shouldn't be too hard to merge the output
of 'uuname' and your own name to produce the list you need in the
paths file.

>Is this even a good strategy to use for my mail?

I think so.  It should always be possible to route uucp mail as though
x.y.z were z!y!x.  Yes, I know it may be suboptimal and that's not
what it is supposed to mean but once you get to a machine where this
interpretation makes sense, it doesn't matter.  Usually, though,
you wouldn't get this kind of address unless your neighbors are
putting it in their From: header lines and they shouldn't be doing
that without your approval.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us