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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Subject: Re: Question about smail3.1.21 and domain - help!
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 18:04:31 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.180431.27610@chinet.chi.il.us>
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In article <1991Jun18.040344.27747@coplex.uucp> dean@coplex.uucp (Dean Brooks) writes:

>   We are running smail3.1.21, with a pretty standard setup, linking
>daily to uunet via uucp.  Here, however, is my question:

>1)  Why do the "From " and "Return-Path:" lines state a path
>    of "uunet!coplex!dean", instead of "uunet!coplex.com!dean"?

Those are uucp-style headers and using the uucp name is reasonable
there.  The Return-Path header is option and is added by your
smail as it stores local mail - it's just a copy of the path in
the From_ line.
The header you should be concerned with is the From: line since it
is the one that will be used for replies from non-uucp sites.

>   Thats is really.  By the way, we are running ELM2.3.11 as our
>X-Mailer.  HOSTNAMES in EDITME (in smail) is set to a value
>of "coplex.com:coplex.uucp".  The "DOMAINS" variable is not set,
>as I dont want it to translate our address "coplex.coplex.com".

I have a similar setup with several machines using alias files
to find the real address when given user@domain from any of them.
I set up ELM to leave off the From: line and set Smail's
"visible_name" to fb.com.  All remote mail will have the
From: user@fb.com (Full Name) 
line added.  I also have "visible_domains" set to fb.com:uucp so
all the machines accept user@fb.com, user@machine.fb.com, or
user@machine.uucp (or the ! equivalents) as local mail and deliver
according to the alias and forward files.

>From: uunet!coplex.com!dean (Dean Brooks)

If this said dean@coplex.com on the way out, it should still
say that. 

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us