Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!uwvax!dave From: dave@rsch.wisc.edu (Dave Cohrs) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: Another example of smail routing Message-ID: <3108@rsch.WISC.EDU> Date: Sat, 10-Jan-87 12:44:09 EST Article-I.D.: rsch.3108 Posted: Sat Jan 10 12:44:09 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Jan-87 22:52:06 EST References: <14267@amdcad.UUCP> Sender: news@rsch.WISC.EDU Reply-To: dave@rsch.wisc.edu (Dave Cohrs) Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 27 Phil Ngai complains that his mail gets routed through SUN.COM despite the fact that his host is connected directly to other sites, for example UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU and DECWRL.DEC.COM. Without looking at the mail config files on the sites you mention, I can't give an exact answer. However, the two sites you mention *are* on the Internet and use the Nameserver for routing mail. When they get mail for AMDCAD.AMD.COM, I assume that they look up the mail routing info in the nameserver, an MX record, which says "send *mail* for AMDCAD.AMD.COM to SUN.COM". If amdcad (or any other AMD machine, as the case may be) has a direct connection to decwrl and ucbvax, they need to put special hacks into their configuration to override the MX information from the nameserver. In any case, I don't think your beef is with smail, but with the mail configurations at decwrl and ucbvax. Decwrl and ucbvax are doing what AMD.COM told them to do, "send our mail to SUN.COM". I'm sure that you can work something out with their postmasters. Dave Cohrs (608) 262-1204 ..!{harvard,ihnp4,seismo,topaz}!uwvax!dave dave@rsch.wisc.edu