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From: gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: the mail must go through
Message-ID: <1826@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-May-84 02:41:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.1826
Posted: Mon May 14 02:41:40 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 15-May-84 02:39:12 EDT
References: <1805@mit-eddie.UUCP> <257@uwvax.ARPA>
Organization: MIT EE/CS Department, Cambridge, Ma.
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Arpanet mail is not queued if a sending host (seismo in this case) has
disabled ARPAnet service, to my knowledge.

Also, it is not the case of a wrong address here ...
   
   ...seismo!hao!...!sri-unix!foo@arpasite.arpa

... it is the case that UUCP sites on the ARPAnet choose to interpret
the address differently than as the reply to a message sent from
arpasite.arpa to
 
   ....!hao!seismo!....!endhost!enduser@sri-unix.arpa

Instead of introducing state machines in sendmail/SMTP, perhaps a
quoting feature could be implemented so that the address in quotes is
interpreted by the current mail agent for his particular context.   For
example, 

   ...!seismo!hao!...!sri-unix!enduser@endarpahost.arpa

means deliver me to seismo, then hao, etc.  until you get to sri-unix,
then SMTP automagically takes over, whereas

   ...!seismo!"hao!...!sri-unix!enduser@endarpahost.arpa"

means deliver me to seismo, THEN use SMTP to deliver me to endarpahost,
etc. 

Hopefully, when domains are implemented, these problems will be
resolved, but in the meantime, back to header munging ...
-- 
					Be ye moby,
					for I am moby.

Greg Skinner (gregbo)
{decvax!genrad, eagle!mit-vax, ihnp4}!mit-eddie!gds

Joy is in the ears that hear.