Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!epiwrl!epimass!jbuck From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: ! and @ -- which RFC ? Message-ID: <2056@epimass.EPI.COM> Date: 7 Apr 88 21:28:02 GMT References: <12798@brl-adm.ARPA> <4557@chinet.UUCP> <2052@epimass.EPI.COM> <1121@cblpf.ATT.COM> <4634@chinet.UUCP> Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Distribution: na Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 31 In article <1121@cblpf.ATT.COM> Tim Thompson writes: >With >the free smail package, and the ease with which it can be installed, there >just doesn't seem to be a reason why a uucp machine can not understand >the "@" syntax. In article <4634@chinet.UUCP> Leslie Mikesell writes: >Two reasons: > The machines are small and fairly loaded as is; I don't want each of >them to have to store the names of all the machines in the known universe >or to search such a table every time mail is sent. This is unnecessary. Assign one of the machines in your organization to be the gateway to the world; give the remaining machines a paths file that only knows about your local machine topology; make smart-host point to your gateway machine. Even your smart-host machine doesn't have to use the full map; you could just give it the d.* files from comp.mail.maps to crunch on so it knows about domain gateways. > Also, the machines are either on a network or connected by dedicated >lines. Most do not have modems, so mail to the rest of the world must be >routed through a machine that has modems (and fewer users). Then my above proposal is perfect for you. Your internal machines can be set up to hand everything but local mail to your smart host. -- - Joe Buck {uunet,ucbvax,sun,}!epimass.epi.com!jbuck Old Internet mailers: jbuck%epimass.epi.com@uunet.uu.net