Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!ncar!gatech!purdue!decwrl!hplabs!motsj1!mcdchg!clyde!watmath!onfcanim!dave From: dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: active rerouting Message-ID: <16181@onfcanim.UUCP> Date: 18 Sep 88 17:01:43 GMT References: <4740@b-tech.UUCP> <4747@b-tech.UUCP> <4748@b-tech.UUCP> <4753@b-tech.UUCP> <1426@ficc.uu.net> <6548@chinet.UUCP> <16129@onfcanim.UUCP> <6581@chinet.UUCP> Reply-To: dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale) Organization: National Film Board / Office national du film, Montreal Lines: 25 In article <6581@chinet.UUCP> les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell) writes: > >Yes, it can be done now, but as I understand things, the kludge that you >use to pass the combination route/address depends on the parsing by the >intermediate sites. RFC976 states that uucp gateways are supposed to >take domain.dom!user and treat it like user@domain.dom, but if the site >that you want to do the routing is not your uucp neighbor, then you need >to know how to pass the request through the subsequent sites. Ok, let me be more complete. The distributed B news software provides the INTERNET flag plus the internet line in the mailpaths file to help you. To make use of it, you have to find a site that handles Internet addressing and is willing to perform this service for you. To do this, you have to talk to the system administrator there. While talking, you can probably either determine a route from you to them that will not corrupt adresses, or you can establish a direct connection. Then your problems are solved. (Note that a site which can handle Internet addresses is not necessarily on the Internet itself - it's probably your nearest well-managed major UUCP site.) I realize that sometimes you may not be able to find someone to handle your mail this way, but given that you have found such a machine, finding a "safe" path to it or just setting up a direct connection should seldom pose a problem.