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From: jbvb@FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: PCTCP vmail routing
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Date: 18 Apr 91 22:00:34 GMT
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    We are trying to get vmail on PC TCP to send mail only to our POP3 mail
    server on a SCO UNIX box.... I have set the mailrelay using the ipconfig
    commands but it still try's to do some of the routing.

The "mailrelay" is normally set to the fully-qualified domain name of a local
host that runs a full-service, queueing mail forwarder like 4bsd sendmail.
When we're using one, we use an RFC 822 source route, e.g.
@relay.net:user@host.com.  Is this what is causing you problems?

If SCO box is 'relay.net' in the above, that source route should be treated
as equivalent to "user@host.com".  If their sendmail.cf doesn't understand
source routes, it can be fixed to either parse them (the sendmail.cf we
distribute with our OS/2 product does so) or ignore them.

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