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From: knutson@marconi.sw.mcc.com (Jim Knutson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Rewriting aliased adresses for uucp delivery
Message-ID: <2137@marconi.sw.mcc.com>
Date: 17 Mar 89 23:51:21 GMT
Organization: MCC, Austin, TX
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I'm having a problem with rewriting the To: field when using an
alias that includes delivery to a uucp neighbor.

Given that I had the following as an alias:

members-at-large: knutson@milano.uucp

If I mailed a message on peyote to members-at-large, I would end up with
a header which looked like:

From: peyote.cactus.org!knutson (Jim Knutson)
To: members-at-large

When the message was finally delivered on milano, the message header
looked like:

From knutson@peyote.cactus.org Fri Mar 17 15:46:38 1989
From: knutson@peyote.cactus.org (Jim Knutson)
To: members-at-large@milano.sw.mcc.com

Now for the questions:

1. Is there a problem with using domained hostnames for uucp delivery?
   Should I be using the syntax user@domain, user@host.uucp or host!user?

2. Is the header being written correctly, or should the To: field be
   rewritten?  I already tried rewriting it to be peyote!members-at-large
   but then milano thinks the mail is supposed to be sent back to peyote.

3. Will the C flag on someones uucp mailer definition solve this and if so
   who needs the change (milano, right?)?
-- 
Jim Knutson
knutson@mcc.com
cs.utexas.edu!milano!knutson