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From: msir@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Catching bad addresses
Summary: I hate to post this again, but...
Message-ID: <576@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 88 19:12:22 GMT
Reply-To: msir@cc.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota)
Organization: Univ. of Rochester, Computing Center
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Several months ago (and several months before that, and ...) there was a
discussion on how to catch bad addresses and forward them to some other
machine which might be able to resolve them.

In other words, I want my configuration files to be able to do the
following:
(1) Try to resolve the host part of the address.
(2) If I can't, then forward the letter to cc.rochester.edu (which has a
	better chance of succeeding).

This may come up if, for instance, my local machines are not running name
service but cc.rochester.edu is.

I seem to recall that someone suggested putting a '.' at the end of the
hostname before canonicalizing it with $[ and $], but I can't seem to get
that to work.  Is there some way of accomplishing this?

Thanks in advance.  And I apologize for the multitudinous questions I've
posted to this forum in the last week or so...  I can only hope they seem
like intelligent ones.
-- 
Mark Sirota - University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
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