smail-2.5 fix for domain gateway routing
Guy Middleton
gamiddle at watmath.waterloo.edu
Sat Feb 9 06:56:44 AEST 1991
In article <1991Jan30.195213.12815 at eci386.uucp> woods at eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods) writes:
> >
> > In some other article someone else (gamiddleton?) said:
> > > I think it would be nicer if the result was
> > >
> > > lsuc!utai!watmath!xenitec!user
>
> And someone else also suggested:
>
> lsuc!utai!watmath!xenitec!foo.xenitec.on.ca!user
This is probably most correct, I think.
> > And (gamiddleton?) continues:
> > > That way, I could use smail on watmath to decide that foo.xenitec.on.ca was a
> > > local connection, instead of having to embed that information in my
> > > sendmail.cf file.
> >
> > If you aren't the gateway, you shouldn't have to do anything.
>
> Ah, but if I understand the map entries correctly, watmath *IS* the
> gateway!
Yes, that's right. At least, we are the Internet MX forwarder. xenitec seems
to be the gateway according to the uucp maps. I have some local input to
pathalias which now seems to make smail give the correct paths, but that is
not the most elegant solution.
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