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From: joe@cbnews.att.com (Joseph Judge)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: novice question re mail maps/bang paths.
Message-ID: <1990Aug23.173359.13081@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 23 Aug 90 17:33:59 GMT
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In article <1990Aug21.181956.7571@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>In article <1990Aug20.210800.21492@cbnews.att.com> joe@cbnews.att.com (Joseph Judge) writes:
>>	What I did, in college, was have a friend at that closest "smart"
>>	site send me an ascii copy of his "paths" database.
>
>>	Then, if I need to send somewhere, I grep it out, send the email to
>>	"that_smart_host!whatever_path!user"
>
>Probably a wasted effort.  If the smart site is willing to forward for you
>it should also do the path lookup.  You should have been able to send
>to smart_host!end_host_or_domain!user and let the mailer on the other
>machine do the lookup using its current paths data.
>
>Les Mikesell
>  les@chinet.chi.il.us


	The "big project" I had at that time was routing email around the
	world.

	I wanted to specify a whole path (mail host_a!b!c!d!e!f!host_a!my_login)
	to wrap it around the world.

	At the time, they didn't have the pathalias stuff hooked into their
	mailer, just available to users. 

	But, your point is good. Just find a smart site and hand it to them
	if you can't get pathalias and comp.mail.maps on your host.


	Joseph Judge		postmaster@ATT.COM