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From: fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair)
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Subject: Re: Info on IDA Sendmail kit / pathalias
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Date: Sat, 26-Sep-87 03:25:51 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 26 03:25:51 1987
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In the referenced article, diamant@hpfclp.HP.COM (John Diamant) writes:

	The right answer is to get UUCP sites that have registered
	domain names to have MX records installed at forwarding
	machines on the Internet. Then, any site that is on both
	UUCP and Internet should try to use the domain server first,
	and only use pathalias if that fails.

Ah, but what of the case where I use a UUCP name for an Internet
host (e.g. I say "ut-ngp!user" and the pathalias generated database
spits back "ngp.utexas.edu!user")? The call to search the pathalias
generated database had better not be in a sendmail mailer definition,
where I've already committed to delivering by something other than
SMTP. It has to be somewhere in the address canonicalization routines,
which requires hacking on sendmail.

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu