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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: % in path
Message-ID: <1991May07.141832.11334@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 7 May 91 14:18:32 GMT
References: <1991May4.023832.2999@mccc.edu> <1991May06.141547.19963@chinet.chi.il.us> <234BBH4@xds13.ferranti.com>
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In article <234BBH4@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>What I do is have lmail (which is a simple enough program, and easy to change)
>convert the % to an @ and feed it back through smail. No problemo. And
>subdomains are already handled by smail 2.5.

I thought I had seen a variety of patches go past because it didn't get
it right in the case where the address to the subdomain was not
routed at the source.  In this case, that would mean something
arriving at mccc.edu with an address of hissite.mccc.edu.  It looked
to me like the patches required explicit entires in the paths file too.
Smail 3.x can just be told to remove the gateway domain name before
a paths and/or uucp-neighbors search, so that you can automatically
deliver anything with a user@machine.domain address that you could with
a domain!machine or user%machine@domain or user%machine.uucp@domain address.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us