greg@noel.CTS.COM (J. Gregory Noel) (07/07/90)
John Bickers (jbickers@templar.actrix.co.nz) writes: > I was recently asked by my NewsFeed to modify sendmail so that it > added the DomainName to the NodeName in the first line of an email > body file. Which gives a line like: > > From <UserName> blah remote from <NodeName><DomainName> We went through this when I was at NCR and we had to talk to both "smart" (domain) routers and "dumb" (bang) routers. The "more correct" version of the From_ line is to use: From <NodeName>.<DomainName>!<UserName> blah remote from <NodeName> This gets transformed into <NodeName>!<NodeName>.<DomainName>!<UserName> at the receiving site. Dumb UUCP "bang" routers are happy, since they just look at the leading <NodeName> for routing, and smart routers are happy, since the full domain name is present for them to optimize. -- -- J. Gregory Noel, UNIX Guru greg@noel.cts.com or greg@noel.uucp
jbickers@templar.actrix.co.nz (John Bickers) (07/08/90)
I was recently asked by my NewsFeed to modify sendmail so that it
added the DomainName to the NodeName in the first line of an email
body file. Which gives a line like:
From <UserName> blah remote from <NodeName><DomainName>
This is because the main site around here doesn't like the .UUCP
domain, and I think just forwards email to .UUCP sites to uunet.uu.net.
Has anyone else had to do this? Did it have a +ve effect on mail
circulation?
Please email any information you think relevant (I've already done the
modification).
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