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From: kre@mulga.OZ (Robert Elz)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: is there a right way use to the map
Message-ID: <560@mulga.OZ>
Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 22:28:49 EST
Article-I.D.: mulga.560
Posted: Mon Nov 26 22:28:49 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 28-Nov-84 02:39:53 EST
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Reply-To: kre@mulga.OZ (Robert Elz)
Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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I also have such a program, its called uumail (for the obvious
reason), it also handles multiple destinations.  It doesn't
handle domains, as at the minute I have no real idea what
the uucp domain system is finally going to be like.

Its not in use here yet, as I don't have accurate enough maps
to let it loose upon - some of the routes I've tried it out
on are absurdly long (mostly because of the missing AT&T section,
but that will come soon).  It uses data generated by pathalias.

My aim is to allow people in Australia to forget routing completely
(we already do internally) and do all the work at mulga.

Robert Elz					decvax!mulga!kre

ps: really, its easy to make sendmail.cf files give the backend
mail for lots of hosts, you just do something like ...

	R$*@$-.uucp	$#uucp$@fakehost$:$2!$1

in ruleset 0, then define the "uucp" mailer 'm' flag, and give
its args without $h anywhere (which would always be "fakehost"),
$u contains all the needed info.  If the mailer returns an
error (unknown host, or route, or something) you get to
see "fakehost" in the sendmail transcript that's mailed
back, but a little imagination can easily produce a nicer
word to use there (that's its only use really).  "destination"
is a possibility ("Connecting to destination.uucp ...")
"router" is another.  Given that the mailer name is also
not seen externally in any other place, calling the host
"uucp" and the mailer "router" would produce
	Connecting to uucp.router
which wouldn't be at all bad.