Xref: utzoo comp.mail.misc:1102 comp.mail.uucp:1460 comp.mail.sendmail:5 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!mailrus!iuvax!ndmath!ndcheg!evan From: evan@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu (Evan Bauman) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: routing problem with sendmail/smail Summary: this won't work Keywords: mail,smail,sendmail,route Message-ID: <592@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu> Date: 13 Jul 88 18:17:23 GMT References: <589@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu> <374@eve> Organization: Dep't of Chemical Eng., Univ. of Notre Dame Lines: 36 In article <374@eve>, butler@stsci.EDU (Lee A. Butler) writes: > Re: trying to get smail to deliver: mymachine!localmachine!user to "user" on > "mymachine". > > Have you tried putting a line like this: > > localmachine %s > > in your pathalias database? This method is a sure ticket to disaster. Since there is already a 'localmachine' listed somewhere in the maps, putting this in path.local will assume that we have a connection to the REAL "localmachine" and all the resultant paths will be messed up. As a followup to my original postings, I installed Greg Woods' small patch to main.c in smail yesterday, tested it out, and it works just fine. There's a small increase in the overhead by calling sendmail every time, but it's a small price to pay to make the EE's upstairs happy. Dave Herron has a valid point when he says that we will be unable to mail to the real "jupiter", but I don't think this will ever me necessary (I checked the maps for all the conflicting names, and they are obscure machines). Of course, had the EE's been a little more imaginative when assigning names to their computers, this never would have been a problem! Hmmm, wonder if they read this newsgroup?? Evan Bauman University of Notre Dame evan@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu evan@ndcheg.uucp -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message has been sponsored by Powdermilk Biscuits in the big blue box. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------