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From: pda@rsiatl.UUCP (Paul D. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: smail configuration question
Message-ID: <1687@rsiatl.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 90 20:42:32 GMT
References: <137@dynasys.UUCP>
Organization: Radiation Systems, Inc. (a thinktank, motorcycle, car and gun works facility)
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jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher) writes:

>I have some leaf sites that would like to run smail just to get domain
>addressing capability but don't want to maintain the paths file.  Is there
>anyway to fix things so that they could still use an address like
>soandso@foobar
>and just have it forwarded to my system so that my system could determine
>the correct address (as I maintain the paths file)?  What I'm trying to
>do is let them use regular domain addressing without the paths file by
>using my paths file.  Anyone have any suggestions?  Thanx in advance.

Sure!
Just point the 'smart-host' entry in the paths file to your host with the
full table.  Then, whenever a site is unrecognized at the local host, smail 
will look for the entry 'smart-host' in the paths file.  It will then route 
the mail to the named host...

An example follows.. This is an actual extract from my paths file:

	gatech.edu	gatech		115
	smart-host	emory!%s	115

In this example, if anyhost is unrecognized, the mail is routed to 
emory for processing (I threw in the gatech line just for grins  :-).


To get this info into your paths file if you build them automagically, 
add the following line to your input files for pathalias:

	smart-host	=	emory

Otherwise just key the smart-host line in by hand.  Don't forget that the
paths file must be sorted!

Good luck.
-paul
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