UUCP and SMTP

[worley at world.std.com (Dale R Worley)]

It's always seemed to me that a big part of the trouble with sendmail
configuration is that sendmail's design presumes that the addressing
syntax tells what mail transport method is to be used for the next
hop, whereas it would be much nicer if the name of the destination
host were what determined the mail transport method, and all the
addressing syntaxes were semantically equivalent.  Thus, you could say

	foo!bar!baz

or

	@foo:baz at bar

or whatever you felt like.

But it's not easy (or maybe impossible) to program sendmail to analyze
addresses in that manner.

Dale
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