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From: heiser@world.std.com (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: "smart_path" in smail3.1 configuration
Message-ID: <1991Mar23.183056.11198@world.std.com>
Date: 23 Mar 91 18:30:56 GMT
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Organization: The World
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Using smail 3.1 on an Esix (sysvr3) system, is there a way to alias
a hostname?  My situation is this:  I have two uucp links --  'system1'
and 'system2'.  I have the "smart_path" entry in /usr/lib/smail/config
set to "smart_path=system1".  This way, any mail destined for an "unknown"
system gets routed thru system1 and is resolved there for routing.

I still get mail thru system2 -- and headers have 'system2.domain.com'.
The uucp name of system2 is 'system2', not 'system2.domain.com'.  Therefore,
if I reply to a message that came IN thru system2, it gets addressed as
system2.domain.com!something!something...  Since 'system2.domain.com'
is "uknown" to my system, the mail gets routed first to system1, then
to system2 for delivery.  Not effecient, espeically if system1 is unreachable.
:-)

How can I tell smail that system2.domain.com == system2?

Should I be using pathalias to route things properly, since I now
have TWO smarthosts as uucp links?  Before, I just let my sole uucp 
smarthost take care of things ... it seems this doesn't work so well now.

Looking for suggestions, etc from knowledgable net.people.

Thanks in advance!  

Bill
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