Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!jstewart
From: jstewart@ccs.carleton.ca (John Stewart)
Subject: Re: From: line
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.160511.21042@ccs.carleton.ca>
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
References: <W!H_!H_@cs.widener.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1991 16:05:11 GMT

In article <W!H_!H_@cs.widener.edu> brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
> My machine's name is laverne, but our UUCP name is widener. 

Do you really have to do this?  I had to setup uucp on a machine named
alfred.  Since alfred was already taken in the uucp maps, I picked cunews
as the uucp name for the machine.  

Everything was fine until someone tried to route some large messages
to a local site
via alfred instead of cunews and they got fired down to the real alfred uucp
site in florida via uunet.  

My advice would be to avoid having non-matching host and uucp names if 
at all possible.  It's just too confusing, not to mention all the sendmail
hacking it took to get it to work properly.
-- 
"For those of you with aluminum or fibreglass canoes and paddles, you might
try carrying your canoe around on the roof of your car anytime after New
Years Day.  Anytime before that looks pretty ridiculous.  But after New
Years Day, you just never know.  Spring could come early." -- Bill Mason
