Xref: utzoo comp.mail.misc:1091 comp.mail.uucp:1446 comp.sources.d:2466 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!ncar!woods From: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sources.d Subject: Re: routing problem with sendmail/smail Keywords: mail,smail,sendmail,route Message-ID: <431@ncar.ucar.edu> Date: 13 Jul 88 22:59:56 GMT References: <589@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu> <426@ncar.ucar.edu> <9938@g.ms.uky.edu> <430@ncar.ucar.edu> Reply-To: woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 17 In article <430@ncar.ucar.edu> woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) writes: >As Brian Kantor pointed out, this is not at all true. Mail addressed to >user@jupiter.uucp (in Evan's case) will still be routed to the "other" >jupiter. I need to make a brief addendum to this. This assumes that you don't list all your local machines in your uucp map. Otherwise the .uucp address would still route to the local host (and fail, since smail would try to invoke uux to it). Actually, all you have to do is follow the official rules for map entries and just avoid listing any local hosts for which there is a name conflict. The safest thing is to list none of them unless it is a real uucp link (in which case you better NOT have a name conflict!). As it happens, I do list a few of them, but only for historical reasons (they were in my map entry when I inherited it, and that entry was created before the days of smail). --Greg