Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: smail problem: always resolves domain to bang
Keywords: smail,xenix,SCO,386
Message-ID: <11709@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 2 Aug 88 18:45:24 GMT
References: <28@maxx.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
Lines: 18

In article <28@maxx.UUCP> tyager@maxx.UUCP (Tom Yager) writes:
| 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:

  There's nothing wrong with that, it's a valid address.

  When you parse an address like a!b@c, the default is to treat it as if
it were c!a!b. If you want it the other way, there is code (sorry, can't
remember just where, I *think* in resolve.c) which has the code in
sequence; check for @ else check for !. I just reversed the order of
these checks and it works just fine the other was, ! before @. I can't
really offer you the patches, since I have hacked the program *mightily*
to work for another environment, but that's what does it.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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