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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Smail3.1.19, Its modifying bang addresses - HELP
Message-ID: <279755CD.5102@tct.uucp>
Date: 18 Jan 91 20:08:44 GMT
References: <243@coplex.UUCP>
Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL
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According to dean@coplex.UUCP (Dean Brooks):
>   When given a destination of something like "uunet!joe!wow!fred", it
>will look the address up in the pathalias maps and try and optimize
>the path.  Sometimes this is undesirable if a certain path is desired.

Smail 3 only routes the first element in any bang path.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
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