It's more the rewriting of the outbound headers, so anything coming from
p0.f153.n254.z2.fidonet.org actually appears as though it's
fidouk.fidonet.org when you examine the headers, that sort of thing.
It's more vanity than anything, but we also have a similar requirement at
work for this facility.
> On Mar 7, Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote:
> >
> > Not if you want it to affect the message's headers. If it's just a
> > routing thing, you could use a domainlist router, but I don't think it's
> > any more flexible at present.
>
> I'm curious why the header needs to be rewritten as well. We used to
> gateway a fido address to a local bbs that was the local fidonet hub via
> uucp and all we used with smail was the pathalias router, which worked a
> lot like the domainlist router. The bbs we sent the mail to seemed
> perfectly capable of handling the fact that the envelope differed from
> the header and doing the right thing.
>
>
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