Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcvax!ukc!einode!simon From: simon@einode.UUCP (Simon Kenyon) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: I hate smail + why it is doomed to be wrong. Message-ID: <287@einode.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Jan-87 06:01:38 EST Article-I.D.: einode.287 Posted: Fri Jan 9 06:01:38 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Jan-87 03:49:20 EST References: <140@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Organization: The National Software Centre, Dublin, IRELAND Lines: 18 stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir): > In article <284@einode.UUCP> simon@einode.UUCP (Simon Kenyon) writes: >>using smail just to route uucp mail seems like an interesting thing to do. >>i'm going to try that; and remove all my domain routing crap out of my > A mail user interface should *never* try to interpret the contents of any > header fields. smail breaks this golden rule. In particular, it should not > try to do any routing either. Leave this all up to the mail delivery system. i take it from your comments that you don't know what smail is. smail is part of the mail delivery system, so it should do routing. thats the whole reason for smail. it is a mail router. anyway, i don't think it looks in the headers for that matter. -- Simon Kenyon EUnet: simon@einode.UUCP Smail: The National Software Centre, Dublin, IRELAND Phone: +353-1-716255