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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: Another example of smail routing
Message-ID: <14276@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 10-Jan-87 23:41:32 EST
Article-I.D.: amdcad.14276
Posted: Sat Jan 10 23:41:32 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Jan-87 04:35:52 EST
References: <14267@amdcad.UUCP> <3108@rsch.WISC.EDU>
Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, California
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In article <3108@rsch.WISC.EDU> dave@rsch.wisc.edu (Dave Cohrs) writes:
>
>   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.
>
>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.

AMD.COM never told them to send our mail to SUN.COM. It may be that
most sendmails assume a .COM site is on the Internet and don't bother
to check for a uucp connection and that the configuration files need
to be changed. From what I hear, it appears that the details of this
change are still under development. I would have to say that the
release of smail was premature or incomplete.

-- 
 My left foot is digital, my right foot is analog. 

 Phil Ngai +1 408 749 5720
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