Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!nstn.ns.ca!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: % in path Message-ID: Date: 8 May 91 14:02:28 GMT References: <1991May4.023832.2999@mccc.edu> <1991May06.141547.19963@chinet.chi.il.us> <234BBH4@xds13.ferranti.com> <1991May07.141832.11334@chinet.chi.il.us> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 26 OK, I said: "What I do is have lmail (which is a simple enough program, and easy to change) I meant svbinmail. For reasons having to do with retaining compatibility with older mail system I front end lmail with a version of svbinmail as well. "convert the % to an @ and feed it back through smail. No problemo. And "subdomains are already handled by smail 2.5. In article <1991May07.141832.11334@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes: > 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. Hmmm. I think this works OK. Smail 2.x just strips off the domain name if you have defs.h set up right. > It looked > to me like the patches required explicit entires in the paths file too. What sort of entries? -- Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180; Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012; `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"