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From: tyager@maxx.UUCP (Tom Yager)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: smail problem: always resolves domain to bang
Keywords: smail,xenix,SCO,386
Message-ID: <28@maxx.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jul 88 17:36:08 GMT
Organization: MAXX Public Access Xenix
Lines: 28

I'm running the Xenix-patched version of smail 2.5 and running into a small
problem: every time I send mail to a domain address, it gets resolved to
all uucp. Example:

   fred@decwrl.dec.com
     gets resolved to
   smarthost!decwrl.dec.com!fred

It is correctly determining that I want it routed through the smart-host, but
I'd prefer it left the domain portion of the address alone and resolved to

   smarthost!fred@decwrl.dec.com

because the 'smarthost' is running sendmail, which is not smart enough to
route through the net if bang addressing is supplied (I think).

Is this something smail is not able to do? I am hoping that a simple change to
defs.h will give me the results I seek as I don't really have time to hack up
the code.

Thanks to all in advance.
(ty)

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