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From: steve@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steve DeJarnett)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Simple Ruleset Sought
Message-ID: <11154@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 8 May 89 20:18:48 GMT
References: <8130@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: steve@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steve DeJarnett)
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Organization: Lab Rat Rumpus Room -- Cal Poly SLO
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In article <8130@pyr.gatech.EDU> tpf@pyr.gatech.EDU (Tom Friedel) writes:
>I'm not sure how my sendmail/smail/uux setup is incorrect, but
>if I had a ruleset that would convert 
>
>   A!B!C@D  to  A!B!D!C
>
>I think things would work better.

	Treading into dangerous waters here, but I'll give this a shot.
I think the translation you suggest here is wrong, according to RFC 822.  I
think the way this should be translated is:

	A!B!C@D  yields	   D!A!B!C

You should (God, I hope this is right) always take the rightmost domain first,
and use the preceeding UUCP bang-path address as fodder for D's mailer (it is
presumed that D has a route to A, or can figure one out).

	If I'm wrong, I'm sure someone will correct me, but I think in this 
case I have that right.  If that's not what you're asking, then I must have
misunderstood the question.

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