Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site plus5.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!plus5!hokey From: hokey@plus5.UUCP (Hokey) Newsgroups: net.mail Subject: Re: Mail routing -- problems showing up Message-ID: <853@plus5.UUCP> Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 23:37:46 EDT Article-I.D.: plus5.853 Posted: Thu Sep 12 23:37:46 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 14-Sep-85 05:21:29 EDT References: <1383@peora.UUCP> <9546@ucbvax.ARPA> <1423@peora.UUCP> <170@graffiti.UUCP> <1616@peora.UUCP> Reply-To: hokey@plus5.UUCP (Hokey) Organization: Plus Five Computer Services, St. Louis, MO Lines: 34 JER, Your ideas work well until mail hits a gateway. And the gateway need not be to a different network, either. A set of at least 2 sendmail sites will do it. I do not mean to sound like a flamer, but postulating how much better things would be given a nicer world is at best an academic exercise. It is a shame the Mailnet Gateway of which you speak is unable or unwilling to be a "proper" gateway. However, it is very difficult to teach all the folks in UUCP how to use the syntax needed by a gateway. Besides, it is less work for everybody if the gateway simply gets its act together. If the gateway is unable, then the job could be done by one of the gateway's neighbors. To substantiate some of this, the idea behind ! only works until just before the first (non-uucp) gateway. At that point, the gateway *must* figure out where to send the mail. It is *much* easier to require that gateways do the job of translating address/route specifications between transport domains. This means, for example, that *all* mail at the UUCP transport level should be in ! format. Send your Mailnet stuff to ..!mailnetgateway!site.mailnet!user and let the gateway do its job. Even if the mail is destined to a network which is unknown to Everybody in uucp-land, there must still be a gateway through which the mail must pass. Let it figure out how to get the mail farther along. Indeed, that gateway probably sent the mail to you in the first place... -- Hokey ..ihnp4!plus5!hokey 314-725-9492