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- From: jos@bull.nl (Jos Vos)
- Subject: Re: what to do with <@a,@b,@c:u@h>
- Message-ID: <C1Cs75.Dnp@bull.nl>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 10:09:04 GMT
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- mcclure@viper.cs.unm.edu (Brent McClure) writes:
-
- >We are re-working our sendmail configuration, and our mail relay
- >host currently attempts to route addresses of the form:
-
- ><@a,@b,@c:u@h>
-
- >to "a", however from what I've been reading from several places
- >it sounds like many sites are simply throwing away the source-route and
- >resolving straight to "u@h". Is this the recommended practice
- >now and/or is there any harm in this?
-
- No and yes. You should route to "a". I'm not sure whether it's forbidden
- to route to "h" directly (although I think it is), but it's certainly
- wrong to give up when that does not succeed i.s.o. routing to "a" then.
-
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- -- Jos Vos <jos@bull.nl> (UUCP: ...!{uunet,mcsun,sun4nl}!nlbull!jos)
- -- Bull Nederland NV, Product Support Unix, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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