Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!princeton!allegra!ulysses!mhuxt!ihnp4!alberta!ncc!lyndon From: lyndon@ncc.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: I hate smail Message-ID: <1286@ncc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Jan-87 17:48:52 EST Article-I.D.: ncc.1286 Posted: Thu Jan 8 17:48:52 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Jan-87 20:52:35 EST References: <14227@amdcad.UUCP> <532@rayssd.RAY.COM> Organization: Nexus Computing Corp., Edmonton, AB Lines: 35 Summary: A suggestion... > > I believe that the UUCP-Project is still working on improving smail, > so if you have some specific suggestions, why don't you spell them out? > > -- > Greg Paris ....................... gmp@rayssd.RAY.COM > {cbosgd,gatech,ihnp4,linus,mirror,uiucdcs}!rayssd!gmp OK - here's one: It would be nice if smail could handle aliases. I find smail to be a very nice package - it gives us no trouble at all. I did try running uumail for a while, specifically to get the aliasing feature, but quickly switched back to smail (we had a number of problems that I won't go in to. Most were configuration problems that will vanish when I can spend some time with the software). There has been a problem with sites completely rewriting the bang path. Our philosophy is to route anything that shows up on ncc in the form "domain!user", "uucp_host!user", or "user@domain". This allows us to control access to directly connected sites if there are problems (well, sometimes :-), and allows us to route for downstream sites. It *also* allows a downstream user to pick an explicit path to a site if s/he so chooses. Recently we added another rule to the above: If a piece of mail arrives destined for "b!c!d" where "b" is not a machine we know about, smail attempts to prepend the necessary path to "b". This seems to help quite a bit when a downstream site tries to reply to a message with a munged up bang path in the From: line. -- Lyndon Nerenberg - Nexus Computing Corp. - lyndon@ncc.UUCP UUCP: {ihnp4,ubc-vision,vax135,watmath}!alberta!ncc!lyndon