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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: What do I do with my shiny new domain name?
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Date: 30 Apr 89 06:59:35 GMT
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Here's a summary of the answers I got:

I'm supposed to add right after my #N line a #F line:

#F      uunet.uu.net

This is my Internet forwarder, the site that has my MX record.  If I
have more than one, I put them comma-separated on one #F line.

I also add the lines:

twwells .twwells.com(LOCAL)
twwells = twwells.com

to my map entry with the other pathalias input. I don't need the
first line if I don't have any other machines in my domain. Or if my
main machine will handle mail addressing so that all my users appear
as if they were on the main machine.

And besides being twwells!bill and bill@twwells.com, I might also
want Internet sites to try bill%twwells.com@uunet.uu.net.

The following people contributed info used in this article:

avolio@decuac.dec.com           Frederick M. Avolio
chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US        Chip Rosenthal
fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU       Erik E. Fair
jimmy@pic.ucla.edu              Jim Gottlieb
ulmo@ssyx.UCSC.EDU              brad allen

Thanks.

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Now, I have two further questions before I go do this:

Here are my assumptions on what will happen:

	Twwells will work as always, from uucp sites.

	Uucp people with a smart router can mail to twwells.com and
	the router will turn that into a path to twwells.

	Uucp people can mail using a path like
	....!smart-mailer!twwells.com!bill and the same thing will
	happen.

	Internet people can mail to twwells.com and, if the mail stays
	in the Internet, will end up at uunet which will then route it
	to me at twwells. (Assuming that the Internet site is
	up-to-date. If not, it's not my problem, man!)

	People on other networks will either end up gatewaying to uucp
	or to the Internet and so will end up doing one of the above.

	Once the .com name appears in the maps, I can both update the
	software and tell people that mail to twwells.com will work.
	Until then, mail to twwells.com will be erratic except for
	mail originating from Internet sites.

Is there anything in the above that isn't true?

And my final question:

I'm thinking that I'll need to make these changes to my software:

	For smail, all I need to do is to set MYDOM to .com.

	For inews, I only need to change MYDOMAIN to .com.

	For rn, I need to add a modified NEWSHEADER and CANCELHEADER
	to config.h, and fix the Reply-To: line in Pnews.

I'm running smail 2.5 patch level 3, B news 2.11 patch level 14, and
rn 4.3.1.4 patch level 40, on a Microport SysV/386 3.0e. Does there
appear to be anything I've overlooked?

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Bill                            { uunet | novavax } !twwells!bill