smail-2.5 fix for domain gateway routing

[Michael Richardson]

In article <1991Jan23.061830.19719 at watdragon.waterloo.edu> gamiddleton at watdragon.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) writes:
>In article <1991Jan14.234354.8055 at eci386.uucp> woods at eci386 (Greg A. Woods) writes:
>> Here's the problem, as told by Mark Moraes <moraes at cs.toronto.edu>:
>> 
>> 	When looking up "foo.xenitec.on.ca", first look it up as is.
>> 	If matched, replace the %s in the path with username.  Else,
>> 	remove the first domain component (foo) and look up
>> 	".xenitec.on.ca".  If that matches, replace the %s in the path
>> 	with THE FULL DOMAIN NAME AND username.  I.e:
>> 
>> 		lsuc!utai!watmath!foo.xenitec.on.ca!user
>> 	NOT
>> 		lsuc!utai!watmath!user

  lsuc!utai!watmath!xenitec!foo.xenitec.on.ca!user should be what is
produced.

>I think it would be nicer if the result was
>
>	lsuc!utai!watmath!xenitec!user
>
>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. I
understand that IDA sendmail provides much better handling for
UUCP/Internet hosts and gateways. (I have the binaries, I'm just
scared to install it now with ~75 messages/day going through my
system.)
  The IDA systems seems to prefer rabid-rerouting (it certainly makes
it easier) but doesn't seem to insist upon it.



  


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