Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mandrill!hal!ane From: ane@hal.UUCP (Aydin "Bif" Edguer) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.uucp Subject: SMTP vs UUCP/TCP + more Keywords: SMTP UUCP TCP RFC822 Message-ID: <268@hal.UUCP> Date: 7 Jul 88 20:24:43 GMT Reply-To: ane@hal.cwru.edu (Aydin "Bif" Edguer) Followup-To: comp.mail.sendmail Organization: Biometry Computing Facility Lines: 29 I recently became a part of the NSFnet and thus the great INTERnet community. I have installed the new named(4.8), sendmail(5.59), nntp(1.5), and tcp. Everything is running well for the most part but I do have a couple of questions. Q1: To sites that I now communicate to via the internet instead of dialup, should I a) make a TCP entry in my L.sys file or b) map the hostname to hostname.domain in sendmail With (a) the site looks like a uucp site to sendmail and uucico(1) must be called to actually deliver the mail. This also involves the overhead of logging in. With (b) the site name is treated as a fully qualified domain and thus delivered via SMTP. Which is the "Better" way to go and why? Q2: When given an address <@host1.dom,@host2.dom:user@host3.dom> the mail should be forwarded to host1.dom. But what address should be passed to host1? Should the address be <@host1.dom, @host2.dom:user@host3.dom> (and make host1 remove its name) or should the address be <@host2.dom:user@host3.dom>? Similarly for the address <@host2.dom:user@host3.dom>... should host2 get <@host2:user@host3.dom> or just? Thanks, Aydin Edguer ane@hal.cwru.edu (216) 368-3195 (w)