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From: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
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Subject: Re: AT&T map entry
Message-ID: <316@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Date: 5 Aug 88 01:04:24 GMT
References: <313@psuhcx.psu.edu> <10368@ncc.Nexus.CA>
Reply-To: wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner)
Organization: Penn State University
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In article <10368@ncc.Nexus.CA> lyndon@ncc.nexus.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
|In article <313@psuhcx.psu.edu> wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner) writes:
|>Now, can't you just say
|>att	.att.com
|>and then let internal sites be addressed as xxx.att.com?  It would make
|>it a lot easier to check for paths that are going through att that shouldn't
|>be, and would make the paths file all that much smaller.
|
|The trouble is the System V mailers don't grok domain addresses. If AT&T
|was to do this, they would have to run software from the GNU project :-)
|
If att is running sendmail (I suppose that's a silly thought?) it wouldn't
be too hard to create another mailer, say 'attuucp', which can strip all
of the .att.com 's out of the headers to hand to the internal site, and
then add them back when going out...

  Bill