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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: *Dumb Question* Does Elm Use Maps?
Keywords: Dumb Elm Maps
Message-ID: <1990Sep25.131010.9714@DSI.COM>
Date: 25 Sep 90 13:10:10 GMT
References: <84@thinc.UUCP> <1990Sep24.022937.6497@nstar.uucp> <90@thinc.UUCP>
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Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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ethan@thinc.UUCP (Ethan A. Lish of THINC) writes:
>	*BUT* smail is not part of elm.  Smail/Sendmail/rmail are mailer
>	agents that elm uses to transmit the mail. I think that the answer
>	to my question is Elm does *NOT* make use of the usenet/Darpa maps.
>	Smail/Sendmail *DO* make use of the maps, while rmail does *NOT*.

>	Well, net.landers is this correct?
Yes and no....  Elm can be configured to use a MTA for routing, or it
can be configured to do it itself.  If you tell Cofigure to have Elm
not touch outbound addresses, it doesn't use the map info.  If you
tell it to touch them, and provide the proper file name of the output
of running pathalias (the paths file), then it will route.  The answer
is if you run a routing MTA (smail/sendmail/MMDF) then make Elm not touch
addresses.  If you don't run one of those, let Elm route until you can
get one of those installed.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
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