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From: zben@umd5.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Handling %'s and forwarding mail
Message-ID: <628@umd5.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 13:37:45 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  2 13:37:45 1985
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References: <226@harvard.ARPA> <487@grkermi.UUCP>
Reply-To: zben@umd5.UUCP (Ben Cranston)
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Summary: Some site require their own name?

In article <487@grkermi.UUCP> starkman@mit-athena.ARPA (Eic N. Starkman) writes:
>In article <226@harvard.ARPA> kevin@harvard.ARPA (Kevin Crowston) writes:
>>What if I wanted to send all of my mail by forwarding it to a
>>local "smart" machine with a decent mailer and letting it do
>>all of the delivery?  E.g. xyz is the smart machine; do I say
>>
>>	RCPT TO:<@xyz.arpa:person1@site1.arpa,person2@site2.arpa>
>You should use a separate RCPT TO: line for each person to receive the
>message.
>	RCPT TO:
>	RCPT TO:
>You don't need to put the @xyz thing in...after all, XYZ knows its own name.
>
The responses to the other questions look OK to me, its pretty much what we
are doing for our BitNet gateway.  Looking at headers is bad practice, for if
the message has been forwarded once before it gets to you, the header will in
general be out-of-sync with the out-of-band addresses.  Unfortunately, the
IBM mail system we interface with DOES look at the headers, so I have been
forced to develop code to correlate the inband and out-of-band addresses.

Some of our implementations, however, REQUIRE an "ourname" to be found at the
head of the address, basically as an error check on other peoples site tables.
So I disagree with the "you don't need to put in the @xyz thing" above...
-- 
Ben Cranston  ...{seismo!umcp-cs,ihnp4!rlgvax}!cvl!umd5!zben  zben@umd2.ARPA