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- From: rick@ricksys.lonestar.org (Richard D. McCombs KB5SNF)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <921224.011650.9F1.rusnews.w165w@ricksys.lonestar.org>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 01:16:50 CST
- References: <1992Dec8.190000.21254@nwnexus.WA.COM> <KGmNrAOCBh107h@boombox.apana.org.au> <BzMIIu.Lnp@cs.psu.edu> <BzMpx5.D00@chinet.chi.il.us>
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- les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
-
- > In article <BzMIIu.Lnp@cs.psu.edu> fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
- >>|The problem with smarthost: hishost!bighost is that mail for myneighbor
- >>|(ie: myhost!hishost!myneighbor!user) goes up to bighost.
- >
- >>Only if you don't have your PATHS file set up properly.
- >
- > But it will still force mail to direct neighbors of hishost to go to
- > bighost and back unless you also maintain path entries for those machines.
- > If the mailer on hishost is smart enough to resolve what it can and
- > pass the rest on to bighost then you are better off using hishost as
- > your smarthost instead of hishost!bighost.
-
- But if his host isn't running software smart enough to do anything but
- rmail user1
- or
- rmail neighbor1!thathost!anotherhost!someuser
- meaning it doesn't know how to send mail to someone not directly
- connected to it and it doesn't know about domains then you'll probably
- want to use hishost!bighost for your smarthost. and if you have more
- than one connection and they are in domains then you going to want them
- your paths file even if they are all running smart software so that when
- you send mail to user1@neighbor1.somewhere.org it won't have to go to
- the smarthost first.
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