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From: david@ukma.uky.csnet (David Herron, NPR Lover)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Domains
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Date: Wed, 10-Sep-86 20:58:17 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 10 20:58:17 1986
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In article <895@gilbbs.UUCP> mc68020@gilbbs.UUCP (Thomas J Keller) writes:
>   All this talk of domains, smart mailers, etc. is fascinating, but I
>wonder if all you high-powered gurus have stopped to think about how many
>of us out here do not have source licenses, and thus cannot blithely
>modify our mailers and uucp systems?  How many of you even give a damn?
>(I should waste my time asking *THAT* question?!!)

Oh lord.

Some of these programs can be tossed in the middle of existing
binary systems.  (I think I'm thinking of the "uumail" thing
that was posted awhile back, or maybe I'm thinking of smail...
no matter, the idea is still valid anyway).

What you do is toss out that silly old /bin/rmail which came with
your machine and insert one that recognizes domains.

Then at your other end you have a user interface for sending mail.
You can write your own if you like (or take "elm" or there was a
copy of mailx posted some time ago or I think mh is probably easily
enough available...).  Or if you don't like to use your own user
interface you can insert a "fake-uux" in /usr/bin which looks for
rmail executions like:

	uux - remote-host!rmail domain!user

(or some such...) and takes the path to remote-host, takes the
first element of that and gives that to uux and gives the rest
of the path as the argument to the remote rmail, i.e.

	uux - neighbor!rmail path-to-remote-host!domain!user

In other words, this nice wonderful net CAN give you domain-ist-ing
WITHOUT requireing source mods... even if it IS a silly hack. :-)
-- 
David Herron,  cbosgd!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET, david@ms.uky.csnet
	(I'm also "postmaster" at all those addresses)
	(And "news" and "netnews" and "uucp" and ....)