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- From: martini@heaven7.in-berlin.de (Martin P. Ibert)
- Subject: Re: Any easy way to filter this type of UUCP traffic?
- Message-ID: <RR487WB@heaven7.in-berlin.de>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 11:14:22 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.233325.14291@blilly.UUCP>
- Organization: The Seventh Heaven, Berlin, Germany
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- bruce@blilly.UUCP (Bruce Lilly) writes:
- > For replies, bounce messages etc. to work properly *for mail
- > delivery via UUCP/rmail*, bidirectional links are required.
-
- IMHO, that is not true. If the link a!b is used for UUCP mail delivery,
- a bounce message might be sent to c!b!a!user. If the link a!b is not
- bidirectional, i e b!a is 100*DEAD, than the mail agent at b will
- not send the message directly to a, but rather via the normal mail
- route to a, say d!a!user. Thus, the bounce message travelled c!b!d!a!user
- as opposed to the c!b!a!user the sending mailer daemon anticipated, but
- nonetheless it arrived at its destination.
-
- There is only a problem if the mail link a!b is unidirectional and the
- mail agent at b does not have any route to a at its disposal.
-
- Comments, anyone?
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