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From: tp@mccall.com
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Question about pathalias output.
Message-ID: <64.26dcced9@mccall.com>
Date: 30 Aug 90 08:31:21 GMT
References: <344@dynasys.UUCP> <1990Aug28.195720.10793@motcad.portal.com>
Organization: The McCall Pattern Co., Manhattan, KS, USA
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In article <1990Aug28.195720.10793@motcad.portal.com>, jtc@motcad.portal.com (J.T. Conklin) writes:
> In article <344@dynasys.UUCP> jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher) writes:
>>[All mail going through a well connected site rather than other, cheaper
>>links]

>[Because the total path cost is cheaper through the well connected site.]

>>How can I get it to stop this behavior?

> Declare the cost to this site obscenely high.

One other option is available. If you want your mail for the well connected
site to go direct, but want your other mail to use your cheaper links, you
can declare the link to the well connected site to be terminal by enclosing
the site name in angle brackets (<>), like so:

you	<well-connected>(500), cheap(DIRECT+FAST), ...

This tells pathalias not to route any mail through well-connected unless
that is the final destination.

Of course if you just want a different balance, you'll just have to raise
the cost on the well connected site until you get the proportion you want
of mail going through it rather than your other links.
-- 
Terry Poot <tp@mccall.com>                The McCall Pattern Company
(uucp: ...!rutgers!ksuvax1!mccall!tp)     615 McCall Road
(800)255-2762, in KS (913)776-4041        Manhattan, KS 66502, USA