Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!minya!jc
From: jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: UUCP gatewaying to CSNET, BITNET, ARPANet, etc.
Message-ID: <473@minya.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 88 19:48:18 GMT
References: <101@mjbtn.UUCP> <102@lafcol.UUCP>
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Keywords: UUCP, gateways, domains, pathalias
Summary: uucp aliasing?

> Another problem we have encountered with mail coming to UUCP from BITNET
> is that recently some of it has been coming in with upshifted userids.

Yeah, and upshifted host names, in some cases.  Which brings up a question
I've had for some time, and which TFM doesn't seem to answer:  Is there a
way to hostname aliasing with various versions of uucp?  I'm most interested
in BNU (hdb), as that's what's running here, but I'm sure others would like
to hear the answer for their system.

There are several reasons for wanting this.  For instance, one of my links
is to mit-eddie (along with half of New England, I think).  It'd be real
nice if I could say "eddie!..." rather than "mit-eddie!...".  Yes, I really
am that lazy.  I've also gotten mail with "MIT-EDDIE" in the path, and it'd 
be nice if the mailer here could be made to handle responses without first
bouncing them back to me for further editing.

Now, I could of course intercept /bin/mail and /bin/rmail, and add my own
lookup to it.  Maybe I'd call the database "/usr/lib/aliases" or something
like that.  But perhaps it's already there in the code, and they just didn't
bother telling me about it.  Anyone know?

-- 
John Chambers <{adelie,ima,maynard,mit-eddie}!minya!{jc,root}> (617/484-6393)