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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: rewriting FROM: lines
Message-ID: <1729@fig.bbn.com>
Date: 18 May 89 13:01:43 GMT
References: <1936@edison.GE.COM> <1989May17.194701.16816@ateng.ateng.com> <528@texsun.Central.Sun.COM>
Distribution: usa
Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation
Lines: 26

In <528@texsun.Central.Sun.COM> my good buddy Jim Thompson <jthomp@hemaneh.UUCP>
somewhat foolishly steps forward and offers:
>Perhaps I can help clean our end up, *IF* we have a problem.

Hey Jim, I've had a problem with Sun's non-domain routes for a long time...
	island!argv@sun.com
	argv%island@sun.com
	elef%smarmy@sun.com

Now, the first is OK:  <island!argv> is a local-part to sun.com, and you
should just hand it off to your UUCP neighbor "island."  Which you do.

The second and third ones I have trouble with.  In the past, the second
line has worked as the first one did, lately it works as the third line
does:  "smarmy" is a local site within Sun.

Any chance of getting your outbound mail gateways to rewrite everything
so we see addresses like
	elef@smarmy.sun.com
and putting out an MX wildcard record for *.sun.com?

Thanks.  Sorry you asked?
	/r$
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