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- From: djk@boombox.apana.org.au (David Keegel)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <KGmNrAOCBh107h@boombox.apana.org.au>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 19:30:02 +1100
- References: <1992Dec8.190000.21254@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Reply-To: David.Keegel@apana.org.au
- Organization: Private site, Melbourne, Australia.
- Lines: 19
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- ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims) writes:
-
- >It is relatively easy to set Waffle up for mail. It is relatively easy
- >to find a site that will route your mail for you (sometimes this might
- >be a half-dozen bangpaths down the pike, but...). It is also easy to
- >define your smarthost as : myhost!hishost!bighost.
-
- Wouldn't you just set smarthost to "hishost"? If hishost doesn't know
- what to do with arbitrary mail (by implication it doesn't), it should
- use bighost as a smarthost. If not, complain to postmaster@hishost.
-
- The problem with smarthost: hishost!bighost is that mail for myneighbor
- (ie: myhost!hishost!myneighbor!user) goes up to bighost. And if all
- of hishost's feedees (is there a proper word for that?) as leaf nodes,
- neither hishost or any of its feedees (including myhost) need to know
- about pathalias or anything -- they just know who they talk to.
-
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- David Keegel Home: <djk@boombox.apana.org.au> Tel: +61 3 593-1460
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