Re: How to apply a patch and conserve Bruce G's structure?

[Dave Sill]

Ben Beuchler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 11:57:51AM -0400, Dave Sill wrote:
>
>> Johan Almqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>> >(The reason for this is that all machines that accept mail with more than
>> >one @ or % get their port 25 locked from the outside world by campus
>> >network administration...)
>> 
>> Just in case you weren't aware of this: your campus network
>> administration is stupid.
>
>Pardon my ignorance, but why would one want more than one '@' in an
>address,

Sendmail used it to implement routing. E.g., user@host1@host2 meant
send the message to host2, who will deliver it to user@host1.

>and why would the ignorant masses fear such a server?

It's a way to do relaying.

-Dave