kalnitz@sunybcs.UUCP (Paul Kalnitz) (08/17/84)
If you mail to csnet-relay without specifying the domain eg. address.arpa@csnet-relay or address.csnet@csnet-relay, does the relay know which net to send the address to?
chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) (08/19/84)
>If you mail to csnet-relay without specifying the domain >eg. address.arpa@csnet-relay or address.csnet@csnet-relay, >does the relay know which net to send the address to? Yes. CSNet-Relay is running MMDF, which does address mapping by table lookup (essentially). If you specify a domain name, it is supposed to listen to that (though I have my doubts as to whether that code is *really* working), but if you don't, it uses its best guess. This happens to work for all CSNet and ARPAnet hosts. (Imagine a bag for each domain. The little guy inside the machine will reach into the ARPA bag for *.arpa, or the CSNet bag for *.csnet; otherwise, he'll rummage through all of them and use what comes up first. As long as host names on different nets are all different, you don't need the domain qualifiers.) (By the way, please don't mail food to the little guy; the crumbs keep collecting in the bottom of the Vax.) -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci (301) 454-7690 UUCP: {seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!chris CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris@maryland
frodo@wcom.UUCP (James Scardelis) (11/04/85)
I see that News 2.10.2B will only mail articles to moderators automatically if /usr/lib/sendmail exists. What exactly is sendmail? Is it public-domain? If it is, will someone please mail me a copy? If not, is there anyway to use ordinary "mail" in a shell script to duplicate it? -- Jim Scardelis, SA vax135!wcom!frodo #include <favorite disclaimer>