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From: gam@netcom.UUCP (Gordon Moffett)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: seeking HDB+smail rerouting script
Message-ID: <17468@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 25 Nov 90 22:38:25 GMT
References: <17345@netcom.UUCP> <761@dptspd.sat.datapoint.com>
Organization: Netcom Public Access Unix, San Jose, CA
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# I wrote:
# 
# >There was this Bourne shell script this guy wrote which would re-route queued up
# >UUCP mail for one site that was presumed dead and rerouted it to other
# >sites, to avoid the cancellation of this mail.  It was called 'reroute' or
# >'requeue' or something like that.  I have lost it and have no record
# >of where or who I got it from.
# 
In the referenced article, lcz@dptspd.sat.datapoint.com (Lee Ziegenhals) writes:

# I have a copy of a c program called 'reroute' that does this.  It was written
# by Lenny Tropiano (lenny@icus.icus.com).  I don't think that it's the same
# program you're referring to, but it does what you describe.

Yes, I've already gotten a copy of Tropiano's program, but it is *not* what
I was looking for.  His 'reroute' program expects *you* to figure out what
jobs to reroute, and what paths to use, etc.  I believe computers are meant
to serve people, not the other way around.  The shell script I am looking
for lets you say (for example) "reroute amdcad", and it will look up all
the rmail jobs for amdcad, and requeue them (with your new pathalias database)
to alternative paths.

I think a neighbor of ours has a copy of this shell script, and I will post it
to alt.sources when I get a copy of it.

Thanks, anyway.
-- 
Gordon Moffett                          {apple,amdahl,claris}!netcom!gam
                                        gam@netcom.uucp