garvey@cmic.UUCP (Joe Garvey) (01/13/90)
I've been learning networking addressing, and examining the HP sendmail file
under HPUX 6.5. I don't understand why HP did what they did.
I only have uucp networking (that's not exactly true, I do have ethernet
and a diskless node, but for this discussion it's close enough). When I mail
a message using elm (net version)
$ elm jim%foobar@mips.com
this fails. It trys to send it out over the ethernet... and since it's a local
lan, it can't find mips.com.
However if I try uupath (I collect the maps and update the pathalias database
regularly), it correctly rewrites the address to:
mips!jim%foobar
If I use this as the mailing address, it correctly goes out over the uucp
link to mips. From what I can tell the address rewriting rules test for
the presense of the bang (!) to tell if it's a uucp address. If it is
then it uses uucp and uupath. In a similar fashion there is a test for "@",
which means it goes over the ethernet.
Question: Why doesn't sendmail use uupath to rewrite the address, and then
test to see if there's a bang in the path? Is there a good reason not to
do this? Has anyone done this? Do you know of any other HP-sendmail problems?
Yes, I've enabled sendmail. (change to executable)
Yes, I've enabled the use of uupath within sendmail. (uncomment rule)
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Joe Garvey UUCP: {apple,backbone}!versatc!mips!cmic!garvey
California Microwave Internet: garvey%cmic@mips.com
990 Almanor Ave HP Desk: xxx ("mips!cmic!garvey")/hp1900/ux
Sunnyvale, Ca, 94086 800-831-3104 (outside CA)
408-720-6439 (let it ring) 800-824-7814 (inside CA)