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From: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: route-addrs in UUCP paths?
Message-ID: <968@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Date: 23 Oct 88 23:26:15 GMT
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Reply-To: wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner)
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In article <9742@swan.ulowell.edu> page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
|
|OK, so since the standards say only registered hosts can put themselves
|in a route-addr (which is probably just wishful thinking, but hey),
|maybe I can combine the above rule with another one that strips
|everything between a comma and the ! -- so
|	mit-eddie!host1.domain,host2.domain!user@host.domain
|becomes
|	mit-eddie!host1.domain!user@host.domain
|which eventually gets rewritten into
|	mit-eddie!host1.domain!host.domain!user
|which is what I want.
|
|I think.
I think you might rather have mit-eddie!host2.domain!host.domain!user...
or, of course, you could make a rule to rewrite it into 
mit-eddie!host1.domain!host2.domain!host.domain!user...

|Any suggestions?  How do I correctly deal with route-addrs in UUCP
|paths?  How do others do it?
|
how about

R$*@$+,$*	$1!$2$3		#take care of ,'s
R$*@$+:$-	$1!$2!$3	#take care of :'s

actually, don't most people do
R@$+,$+		@$1:$2

or something to make route-addr parsing easier?  In that case, just
remove the first @ and change :@'s and :'s to !'s.  ooh, wattapain.
R@$+:$*		$1:$2
R$*:@$*		$1!$2
R$*:$*		$1!$2

I'm sure that's not quite right... I'm doing this off the top of my head.
Anyone care to correct me?  Suggest another way to do it?

  Bill
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