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From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce D. Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: % in path
Message-ID: <98992@becker.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 91 16:11:04 GMT
References: <1991May4.023832.2999@mccc.edu> <1991May06.141547.19963@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <1991May06.141547.19963@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
|
|Smail 2.5 doesn't understand the % as a routing operator and just treats
|it as the local part of the address.  That is actually the correct
|thing to do until you hit the site where there are no other routing
|operators left.  In this case mccc.edu has to handle it.  I would
|suggest switching to smail3.x at least on your gateway machine since
|it will handle the % as well as subdomain format (if you want to
|allow hissite.mcc.edu) without any extra trouble.


	I have a set of patches to smail 2.5, which
	(among other things) implements the ability
	to understand "%". It seems to work the way
	one expects. Other patches in the set allow
	the use of "|" in the aliases file so as to
	be able to mail to programs.


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