Xref: utzoo comp.mail.sendmail:314 comp.mail.uucp:2488 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!iuvax!mailrus!sharkey!emv From: emv@a.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Pathalias and routing of mail Message-ID: <4199@mailgw.cc.umich.edu> Date: 8 Dec 88 16:23:57 GMT References: <2189@unmvax.unm.edu> <1665@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> Reply-To: emv@mailgw.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti) Organization: University of Michigan Computing Center, Ann Arbor Lines: 31 >In article <2189@unmvax.unm.edu> mike@turing.unm.edu writes: >>The problem is that we like sendmail, and we like Internet. We want >>to route *only* mail destined for *.UUCP with pathalias. A couple of alternatives come to mind. You could bring up smail, and pass off all of the uucp stuff to it. It's a full-blown mailer, so there's a fair amount of overhead involved in learning up, but they say it's pretty reasonable. You could bring up uumail, a small mailer that only handles rewriting of uucp mail. It's more or less a drop-in replacement for your uux mailer, and it does a reasonable job of adding pathalias lookups to sendmail. The lookups happen after everything is resolved, so your flexibility is limited. You could bring up the IDA patch kit to sendmail, which provides for direct pathalias lookups within the sendmail.cf. Several of my neighbors run this, and they seem to like it. You could bring up the 'uucpdomain' modifications to sendmail that uunet runs, which provide a similar direct lookup facility. I can't think of any other alternatives, if someone could come forward with a different way of working this out (short of dropping sendmail entirely and running upas, peter) I'd like to hear about it. BTW, mailrus, umix, and sharkey all run uumail. It handles well-formed addresses quite nicely. --Ed