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Re: Zmailer SMTP: Anal retentive or correct?



> 
> 	Well, if it is  "host!user", then why not, but if it is
> 	(for what ever reason)  "user@host", then having two ats
> 	plain sight brings in the need to reprocess them into
> 	%-@-kludge, and all that complication...
> 
> 	That is what I am uneasy about.   Also for the purity in
> 	mind, I don't think the outbound boundary system needs to
> 	kludge around incoming boundary interface problems.
> 

There shouldn't be 2 @'s in this particular case, so I don't think you
need to worry. One is zapped and turned into !, the other is added
with the hostname.


> 	Propably the best place to do kludge processings is to do
> 	it at  /bin/rmail
> 		host!user   ->  host!user@`uname`
> 	("`uname`" means the routine to get the local unqualified
> 	 hostname)
> 

I don't think it matters - you could make a case either way, depending
on where you draw the border line between the internet and the uucp
domain.

Incidentally I'm leaving this morning for Canada on business.


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