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From: mark@cbosgd.ATT.COM (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: A question about smail
Message-ID: <2652@cbosgd.ATT.COM>
Date: Wed, 1-Oct-86 14:00:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.2652
Posted: Wed Oct  1 14:00:36 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 3-Oct-86 09:48:10 EDT
References: <227@BMS-AT.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Oh
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Summary: how to use an incomplete pathalias database

In article <227@BMS-AT.UUCP> stuart@BMS-AT.UUCP (Stuart D. Gathman) writes:
>I would like to use smail on BMS-AT, but not use the full database.
>I would like only gateway addresses in the database.  I would like
>BMS to route uucp names.  (I know, I could let seismo do it.)
>I would like to be able to enter:
>
>	smail user@foo
>
>from BMS-AT and have the message sent to 'BMS!user@foo'.  Here
>is what I put in the 'paths' file.
>
>.UUCP	BMS!%s
>BMS	BMS!%s
>BMS-AT	BMS-AT!%s
>UUCP	BMS!%s
>
>Ultimately, I would put all our local connections and all domain
>gateways in BMS-AT, but I wanted to start with a minimum database.
>It doesn't work.  I get the message 'foo getpath failed' and it tries
>to send the mail to 'foo!user'.  If I try 'user@foo.uucp', it works.
>Do I have to use 'foo.uucp' to use seismo for routing also?  
>MYDOM is set to '.UUCP'.  I know I must be pretty dense, but please
>explain.

In the first place, don't go around expecting seismo to handle all
your mail unless you ask them first; it just isn't nice.  Since you
have a site bms (why is all that upper case in there?) which has
the full database on it, you should be using it for your smart
gateway, not seismo.

Second, the notation user@host means "look up host in the pathalias
database, and route it there".  While there is an implied .uucp for
some actions, this isn't one of them.  You have to type in the .uucp.

Third, if this is going to work, you'll have to list all the top level
domains and indicate that BMS is the gateway for all of them:
	BMS	.com
	BMS	.edu
	BMS	.gov
	BMS	.mil
	BMS	.net
	BMS	.org
	BMS	.au
	BMS	.nl
		/* etc */
	BMS	.arpa
	BMS	.csnet
		/* etc */
	
	Mark Horton