Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!becker!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!thinc!ethan From: ethan@thinc.UUCP (Ethan A. Lish of THINC) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: *Dumb Question* Does Elm Use Maps? Keywords: Dumb Elm Maps Message-ID: <90@thinc.UUCP> Date: 25 Sep 90 02:43:28 GMT References: <84@thinc.UUCP> <1990Sep24.022937.6497@nstar.uucp> Distribution: usa Organization: Tomorrow's Horizons, Inc. -- THINC Lines: 24 In article <1990Sep24.022937.6497@nstar.uucp>, larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes: > ethan@thinc.UUCP (Ethan A. Lish of THINC) writes: > > > Does Elm make use of the uunet maps? If yes how? > > Elm spawns smail3 here on nstar - which uses the paths database > build by pathalias generated from the maps in comp.mail.maps > Greetings Larry- Thank you for the information about your site. *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? Bye, Ethan -- Ethan A. Lish ---- 301.652.0651 ---- {uunet}!thinc!ethan Tomorrow's Horizons, Inc.,4807 Bethesda Ave, #330, Bethesda, MD 20814