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From: edb@fai.UUCP (Edward Bunch)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.misc
Subject: foo   .bar.com(LOCAL) in pathalias.
Keywords: pathalias
Message-ID: <1005@fai.UUCP>
Date: 29 Sep 88 23:14:32 GMT
Reply-To: edb@fai.UUCP (Edward Bunch)
Organization: Fujitsu America, Inc.
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 I am having a mail routing problem with pathalias. A site that will remain
nameless puts:

nameless	.somedomain.foo(LOCAL)

in their pathalias entry.
For my local users I have a better way of getting through to .somedomain.foo.
So I add the line:

fai	.somedomain.foo

in my pathalias.
This works for other domains I serve.
When pathalias builds its files I end up routing through nameless.
I thought of adding my own:

fai	.somedomain.foo(LOCAL)

but my sendmail.cf expects ".somedomain.foo" to be a machine name in L.sys.

QUESTIONS:
1. Is this syntax legal?
2. Must I really hack sendmail.cf to understand "."'s in a name really aren't
   uucp machine names? 

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Edward A. Bunch                       UUCP: {uunet,amdahl,sun}!fai!edb
Fujitsu America, Inc.                 DOMAIN: edb@fai.com
Computer Support and Administation.