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From: tpf@pyr.gatech.EDU (Tom Friedel)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: smail routing problem
Keywords: smail sendmail uucp smart-host
Message-ID: <9221@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 26 Sep 89 20:10:44 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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I am running 386/ix (Sysv 3.2 with sendmail) and have a mailer problem.

I am running smail 2.5.
I am using emory to resolve domain and uucp addresses for me.  This is
done by a path's entry of 
 	smart-host emory!%s

I want to mail to an address like 71131.3234@compuserve.com (dots on either
side of the '@'), but smail sends this out as emory!copuserve.com!71131.3234
which emory rejects.  Emory will handle emory!71131.3234@compuserve.com
correctly, but I can only get this by modifying the uucp control files. 

I tried for quite a while to modify smail to handle this correclty but
was unable to work my way through the C code.

Apparently the way it works (on my system) is mailx (which I use) calls 
sendmail which calls smail which queues the mail.  sendmail passes smail
an address of the form a.b@c.d which smails resolve() reverses for me.

Thanks much

Tom

Tom Friedel  (404) 320-7624 tpf@jdyx.UUCP
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