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Reply To: | Forum on LISTSERV release 1.7 |
Date: | Fri, 12 Feb 1993 12:17:46 EST |
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This might be of general interest, so I'm posting here instead of sending
e-mail back to Hong Zhang. LISTSERV uses the file DOMAIN NAMES to decide
what Bitnet/Internet gateway to use for each recipient of a mailing list
posting. Well, for completeness sake, the info in DOMAIN NAMES may be
overridden by a local exit routine too, but if all your mail is going
to an INTERBIT gateway then I don't thin that's happening. Anyway, mail
going to [log in to unmask] is routed to whatever gateway claims responsibility
for domain name "xyz.edu" or to a default gateway if no match is found.
So the answer is "change (or override) the copy of DOMAIN NAMES that
your LISTSERV uses" if you need LISTSERV to use the local SMTP server.
Having said that, let me state that I've always been of the opinion
that if a site registers an entry in DOMAIN NAMES, then it should be
honored. That is, since someone at ALBANY.EDU (the first .EDU entry
listed in DOMAIN NAMES) went to the trouble of registering their gateway,
I won't override it. So, I'd suggest only overriding the entries that
route traffic to INTERBIT. That way, your local SMTP will handle all
Internet mail for domains not explicitly listed in DOMAIN NAMES.
-jj
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