Help configuring Sendmail to route unknown addresses

[Kimmo Suominen]

>>>>> On 14 Aug 90 23:38:24 GMT, dave at dptechno.uucp (Dave Lee) said:

Dave> HOWEVER, the current sendmail file parses the above as
Dave> 	(uunet!joe)@some.system.somewhere
Dave> Instead of 
Dave> 	uunet!(joe at some.system.somewhere)

That is IMHO the usual way if parsing - @ takes precedence.  If you
change it and let out those hybrid addresses, they might just be
delivered back to you from another site.  Better is to change the
address totally to a bang address or use the %-kludge.  That is: use
either one of

	uunet!some.system.somewhere!joe
	joe%some.system.somewhere at uunet.UUCP

and you'll be much better off.

To have a relay mail host, use the DR-definition in sendmail.cf and
use the line you want to in the part, where these unknown addresses en
up (search for the string "General disposition").  Leave preferably
only one of the examples uncommented.
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Kim  ---  "That's what I think."