On 01/08/03 at 14:45, Neil Herber opined:
> In a recent SIMS discussion it was suggested that the router entry:
>
> domain.com = domain.com.smtp
>
> would be sufficient to redirect mail from a secondary (domain.com) to
> a primary (domain.com.smtp) server.
>
> Unless I am sadly mistaken, there is no top level domain "smtp", and
> what the author meant to say was:
>
> domain.com = smtp.domain.com
No, the author was correct. You are also correct that there is no 'smtp'
TLD. It's a SIMS feature that was introduced somewhere in the 1.8 betas so
that SIMS could be used as a secondary server without having to set the
secondary up as an open relay. The syntax
domain-1.com = domain-2.com.smtp
has special meaning within the SIMS router. SIMS interprets it to say that
mail addressed to domain-1.com should be relayed to domain-2.com (I don't
remember off the top of my head whether SIMS does an MX look-up for
domain-2.com or just uses the A record). The behavior you describe below is
consistent with this feature.
> However, I just tried a test on the router page of SIMS v 1.8b9d14. I
> made NO entry changes in the router itself, I just gave it this
> address:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Which is what [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be turned into by the first
> router entry above. Lo and behold, the result that SIMS gives is:
>
> >anybody at SMTP(domain.com)
>
> In other words, when parsing the domain part of the address, it
> discards the trailing ".smtp". (It does not discard things like .abcd)
>
> I then added the following router entry:
>
> domain.com =domain.com.smtp
>
> and gave it the test address:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> with the following result:
>
> >anybody at SMTP(domain.com) (safe)
>
> Now I am really confused! What the heck is going on here?
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