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From: greg@ncr-sd.UUCP (Greg Noel)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: pathalias bug?
Message-ID: <1304@ncr-sd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Jan-87 18:48:01 EST
Article-I.D.: ncr-sd.1304
Posted: Thu Jan 15 18:48:01 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Jan-87 03:52:31 EST
References: <486@hao.UUCP> <1292@ncr-sd.UUCP> <489@hao.UUCP>
Reply-To: greg@ncr-sd.UUCP (Greg Noel)
Organization: NCR Corporation, San Diego
Lines: 30
Keywords: sendmail, smail

In article <489@hao.UUCP> woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes:
>  Thanks for that information, because it does solve the first problem I had,

Glad I could help.

>but unfortunately it brings up another one.  .....
>   all the non-uucp links are giving me fits.
>..... Smail changes this address to host.third!user@second,
>as per the above pathalias output, but then it doesn't seem to know what to
>do with it after that. I get the mail bounced with the message that host.third
>is an unknown host.  .... [He would like to send it over his ethernet to
>"second" and let it handle the delivery the rest of the way.]

Hmmmmm......  It does seem that this shouldn't be too uncommon.  I'm not in a
good position to answer this question directly, since we are not running the
standard version of smail.  We had similar problems, so we added a number of
capabilities to smail that allow it to handle this situation easily.  (Before
you ask, we have sent our changes back to Larry Auton; hopefully, he should
eventually include them as part of the standard smail distribution.  If you
want to see it, talk to him; we are simply not set up to be able to handle
such requests.)  With our modifications, it is easy to say that the connection
to "second" is via a special mailer (in this case, ethernet); it should even
be possible to say that the mailer was simply a disguised call on sendmail
and send it there for delivery.

I suppose that what I'm trying to say is that I don't know if it can be solved
with the standard smail, but that there is a version of smail that does solve
the problem -- and easily.
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-- Greg Noel, NCR Rancho Bernardo    Greg@ncr-sd.UUCP or Greg@nosc.ARPA