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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.
sdb
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