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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: smail wants you to register a domain (using Path: for replies)
Message-ID: <12307@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 88 22:48:08 GMT
References: <70@volition.dec.com> <71@volition.dec.com>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.mail.uucp
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <71@volition.dec.com> by vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie):
+---------------
| WHAT IF I DON'T GET A DOMAIN NAME?  Then you'll be one of the thousands of
| sites that outputs "From:" lines with "@myhost.UUCP" in it.  Big deal.
| Nobody will be able to reply to your mail unless they run pathalias and
| smail (and unless certain sites stop rewriting <foo@bar.UUCP> into
| <bar!foo@Sun.COM> on UUCP pass-though mail).  That's about it.
+---------------

I should note that the screwup was doubled when I recently replied to a
message that came through sun -- not only did it blow up by misparsing the
address that it had itself generated when it sent the original mail to me
(CWRU's software is now working correctly, I've checked) but it also decided
to reroute the return mail since the return hop was to "cwjcc".  Bad move;
it routed to "mandrill", but that machine is now "cwjcc" and CWRU's mail
admin had to field the bounced mail and send it to me.  (grrr -- sun is a
direct neighbor to mandrill/cwjcc, why the h*ll haven't they changed their
map entry yet?  Ed Rynes has been warning neighbor sites for a month now.)

I suspect the folks at sun just don't give a d*mn what their mail system
does, as long as it works over their Internet connections.

++Brandon
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