Linux-Hams archive - January 1997: Re: Sendmail and two smart hosts

Re: Sendmail and two smart hosts

David Brooke (ofpr.wfku@interactive1.com)
Sun, 12 Jan 1997 21:38:37 GMT

In article <fkyjofm@oce.nl>,
terhi.victor@logonet.com (Stephen Kitchener) writes:
>Now, I could achive this by altering the smarthost eachtime or having two
>different logins so that they have different configration of pine, but I
>would like to be able to do this from one account. This would also reduce
>bandwidth use, and around here that would be of an advantage. :-)

Maybe I've missed the point here but couldn't Pine hand it off to your
local MTA and let that route it accordingly ? Of course you then have
to configure the MTA 8-)

>My next problem is with sendmail, and it's dealing with addresses such as
>user%gb7xxx@gbyyy.#45.gbr.eu

The problem here is that gbyyy.#45.gbr.eu isn't a domain name even if
it looks like one! I use a pseudo domain (like the method for UUCP or
BITNET addresses) so that it could be referred to as gbyyy.pbbs (and let
the WP database fill in the routing hints) or as gbyyy.#45.gbr.eu.pbbs
if WP can't be relied on. This make it easy to distinguish domain name
(ampr.org or otherwise) from packet BBS names.

Regards, Dave