bengsig@orcenl.uucp (Bjorn Engsig) (10/28/88)
Is it always true, that <host>!<user> == <user>@<host>.uucp? Our sendmail.cf files does this transformation, which conflicts somewhat with my idea of ! being the path or route sign, and @ being a mere separator between a username and a host specification. Here on the European EUnet, it seems that <host>!<user> will always reach the person I excpect as long as it is sent to one of our backbones. I have also sent to persons in the U.S. using <user>@<host>.uucp, and it has found it's way even though the path from my backbone (mcvax) to <host> is long. Am I just lucky that mcvax is so clever? Or has the meaning of <host>!<user> as <user> on a <host> directly connected to me changed to <user> on <host> ANYWHERE known in the maps? This is not only a question of rerouting, since I don't really know the to path to <host>, but just send <host>!<user> over to the backbone. -- Bjorn Engsig, ORACLE Europe \ / "Hofstaedter's Law: It always takes ..!uunet!mcvax!orcenl!bengsig X longer than you expect, even if you phone: +31 21 59 56 411 / \ take into account Hofstaedter's Law"
mende@athos.rutgers.edu (Bob Mende Pie) (10/30/88)
In article <172.nlunix6@orcenl.uucp> bengsig@orcenl.uucp (Bjorn Engsig) writes: > Is it always true, that <host>!<user> == <user>@<host>.uucp? .... if the host that you want to send to is registered with the uucp mapping project, then host.uucp should work. If it is not then it might work if there is no other host with that name (not sure if this will work or not... it is probably spicific to the machines in the path). But if there is a registered host with the name you want to send to, then you are out of luck. /Bob... -- {...}!rutgers!mende mende@aramis.rutgers.edu mende@zodiac.bitnet There is always a party going on somewhere, and I am always there.
emv@a.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti) (10/30/88)
>In article <172.nlunix6@orcenl.uucp> bengsig@orcenl.uucp (Bjorn Engsig) writes: >> Is it always true, that <host>!<user> == <user>@<host>.uucp? .... Not necessarily. From more than one system on this campus, you can send mail to 'um.cc.umich.edu!user_name', which is certainly not the equivalent of 'user_name@um.cc.umich.edu.uucp'. --Ed