[comp.unix.admin] Smail 3.1 header rewriting

fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) (04/12/91)

> According to barnett@crdgw1.ge.com:
>> I can take that address and write it into the correct *.XYZ.ge.com
>> address.
>> Can smail3 or Zmailer do these things?

chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
> No, Smail 3.1 can't.

Actually, could you fake it by having smail feed the message to a custom
mailer that does the rewriting?  The mailer could just be a simple C
program to mash the appropriate headers and fork the real mailer.

This might be a reasonable way to do it in the long run.  Most people who
have to deal with mutant address formats only have to deal with 1 or 2 of
them, just local neighbors.

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chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) (04/17/91)

According to fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald):
>Actually, could you fake it [header rewriting] by having smail feed the
>message to a custom mailer that does the rewriting?

Sure.  For example, Deliver would make a dandy back-end for delivery
of processed-header messages.  Though for high-volume sites, such an
approach _might_ be prohibitively inefficient.
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