Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!midway!gargoyle!chinet!les
From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Smail 3.? question
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.043709.12707@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 14 Jan 91 04:37:09 GMT
References: <708@seer.UUCP> <1991Jan02.205814.2454@chinet.chi.il.us> <1991Jan08.173128.29835@nstar.rn.com>
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In article <1991Jan08.173128.29835@nstar.rn.com> larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>is their an option in smail3 to handle the re-routing off all
>traffic regardless of the path specified?

Smail3 handles routing by applying the definitions in the "routers" file
in the order in which they appear. 

>nstar.rn.com's paths database uses SMTP to route mail where
>possible - instead of the traditional bangpaths - which results
>in fewer hops - and I would like to force all inbound mail to
>be rerouted based on nstar.rn.com's paths database --

The problem here is that you don't know what mail is "inbound" until
after it is routed...  However, I suspect that what you want to do
is to duplicate the "pathalias" router but specify a different "paths"
file which will contain what you consider "inbound" addresses (i.e.
machines in your domain), and put this entry first in the routers file.
If you want to deliver to these hosts via SMTP or a mix of SMTP and
uucp, then remove the transport attribute for the router and use a
"methods" file instead.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us