Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!daver!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: sendmail shock. Bibliography? Message-ID: <2801C2BB.29BD@tct.com> Date: 9 Apr 91 13:33:47 GMT References: Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 27 According to barnett@crdgw1.ge.com: >Example: There is one machine who is in domain "XYZ", who insists on >re-writing their address into the form > > user@XYZ.com.user@anything.arpa > >I can take that address and write it into the correct *.XYZ.ge.com >address. I am slack-jawed with amazement that any postmaster would jump through hoops to fix an address so badly broken, instead of telling the people in charge of domain XYZ to get a life. Er, a mailer. >Can smail3 or Zmailer do these things? No, Smail 3.1 can't. As for Smail 3.2, it might have a rewriting facility. But if it does, you can bet that it won't be as hard to read as the Sendmail "standard". >Any delivery agent that can solve those sorts of problems will be >complex. It's not the fault of the MDA, it's because the problem is complex. True enough. IMHO, Sendmail actually makes things worse, though. -- Brand X Industries Custodial, Refurbishing and Containment Service: When You Never, Ever Want To See It Again [tm] Chip Salzenberg ,