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From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: address re-writing in smail 3.1.18
Message-ID: <1991Jun2.231207.19164@unixland.natick.ma.us>
Organization: Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix
References: <1991Jun2.165657.16810@unixland.natick.ma.us> <1991Jun2.182421.11107@Firewall.Nielsen.Com>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 91 23:12:07 GMT

In article <1991Jun2.182421.11107@Firewall.Nielsen.Com> kdenning@genesis.Naitc.Com (Karl Denninger) writes:
>
>NO!  You should not rewrite the To: line.    The internal addressing
>information (ie: the SMTP "RCPT TO: <xxxx>" info or the uux'd command for
>uucp sites) is another matter entirely, and is handled properly by Smail3.
>
>The "From:" line should always have a FQDN in it if you have one.  To
>do so in smail3, set "hostnames" in the config file such that it has two

I had been getting FQDN's in my outbound FROM: line anyway (I had a
"visible domains" line in my config file.  I put in the hostnames line
you suggested, to give it a try.  So far OK.

How do I make all outbound addresses carry FQDN's (I do ONLY UUCP, no
SMTP)?  If I send out stuff like "user@host", it's going out with an
incomplete address!  That causes problems:  For example, if I send to
user@abc, meaning one system, but my mail host also has a host named
"abc", it'll end up bouncing from his machine with a "no such user"
error.  In order to avoid that confusion, the outbound mail needs to
be fully qualified (unless there's another way I don't know about).

You mentioned the "uux'd command".  How do I control that from
within smail?

Thanks!
bill


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