Newsgroups: ont.uucp
Path: utzoo!lsuc!dave
From: dave@lsuc.uucp (David Sherman)
Subject: lsuc treatment of pass-through mail
Date: Fri, 13-Jan-89 14:07:09 EST
Message-ID: <1989Jan13.140719.16572@lsuc.uucp>
Distribution: ont
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto

(No, don't worry, I'm not going to say we won't forward
 non-LSUC mail to non-LSUC sites:-)

I mailed this to a new uucp connection's admin the other day,
but it's actually of more general interest:

				Feel free to use us to send mail to
	anywhere and beyond, but don't use us as a smart host
	intentionally.  If you don't run pathalias I can send you
	the pathalias output file, to which you'd just prepend
	"lsuc!" on every line.  Mail through us should use straight
	uucp host names for the next hop.
	
	Our rmail is a shell file that invokes the stock dumb v7
	mailer to forward on to the next site.  Iff the v7 mailer
	fails, it punts to smail -R to fix the problem.  When it does
	so, rmail then drops a copy into my $MAIL in case smail wasn't
	able to fix it or "fixed" it wrong.  So if you attempt to
	use lsuc as a smart host, I will have the inestimable pleasure
	of reading all your mail :-(.
	
David Sherman
everywhere_in_Toronto!lsuc!dave :-)
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