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- From: rick@ricksys.lonestar.org (Richard McCombs KB5SNF)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <921228.023613.7g6.rusnews.w165w@ricksys.lonestar.org>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 02:36:13 CST
- References: <921224.011650.9F1.rusnews.w165w@ricksys.lonestar.org> <8gy9VB2w165w@dogear.spk.wa.us>
- Organization: The Red Headed League; Lawton, Ok
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- bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick) writes:
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- > rick@ricksys.lonestar.org (Richard D. McCombs KB5SNF) writes:
- >
- >> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
- >>
- >> > In article <BzMIIu.Lnp@cs.psu.edu> fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenne
- >> >>|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
- [my mouthfull deleted]
- >
- > Good lord. That was certainly a mouthfull. (-:
- >
- > In terms of Waffle, all you have to do is properly list your smarthost,
- > and then send your mail to user@some.site or somesite!user. The heavy
- > convolution is totally unnecessary.
- >
-
- I was trying to explain why you might want neighbor!smarterhost as a
- smarthost, and also that unless you have only on connection you might
- want something in your paths file so that all of you mail doesn't go
- through your paths file, especially if your smarthost is longdistance,
- but some host are reachable via a cheaper path.
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