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From: avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: What do I do with my shiny new domain name?
Message-ID: <2666@decuac.DEC.COM>
Date: 22 Apr 89 04:47:18 GMT
References: <841@twwells.uucp>
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I'd like to tell you what you can do with... no, no!  Just kidding.

In article <841@twwells.uucp> bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>...
>Firstly, besides being twwells, a uucp site, I'm now twwells.com with an MX
>off uunet. What is the correct way to put this into my map entry?
>

#N	twwells.com, twwells

then later...

twwells	twwells.com
twwells = twwells.com

>Secondly, is it sufficient to just tell Internet sites to mail to twwells.com,
>or is it necessary for them to do some fudging to make sure that the mail goes
>to uunet first?

The former is sufficient.  UUNET is saying that they will be your mail
exchanger site.  Internet hosts will be able to send to
user@twwells.com and the mail will get there going through
UUNET.UU.NET without any other work or magic.

>Thirdly, are there any unexpected things that I might have to cope with
>because of this additional name for my system? Any additional things I might
>take advantage of to make mail routing easier?

Make sure *your* mailer knows that you are twwells.com!  May have to
twiddle the sendmail.cf.

Fred