Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: % in path Message-ID: <5E7BOWH@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 10 May 91 18:49:57 GMT References: <234BBH4@xds13.ferranti.com> <1991May07.141832.11334@chinet.chi.il.us> <1991May09.150014.922@chinet.chi.il.us> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 49 In article <1991May09.150014.922@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes: > Either way, to get it right you have to go through real contortions. > Imagine a mailing list full of user%site's. Smail would resolve each > one as local, run lmail, lmail would pass each one back to another > copy of smail. True, but % is a low percentage of the traffic. Smail 2.x and domains: > Can it deal with multiple choices in the case where you want to accept > me.uucp, my.domain, me.my.domain, and pass on sub.my.domain? + uuname -l xds13 + smail -A user@xds13.uucp user + smail -A user@ferranti.com user + smail -A user@xds13.ferranti.com user + smail -A user@xds12.ferranti.com xds12!user Yep. > I thought you had to make the entry for "sub.my.domain sub!%s" in the > paths file. Yes, you need to do that. Which is right, because otherwise all my uucp neighbors are suddenly part of my domain. I don't want that... I have a specific subdomain for them for cases where some random internet site breaks all the various source-routing options, but the domain is named to indicate they're not part of ferranti: + grep xds13 /usr/lib/smail/paths # member xds13 %s 0 xds13.ferranti.com %s 0 + grep sugar /usr/lib/smail/paths # non-member sugar ris1!sugar!%s 5000 sugar.hackercorp.com ris1!sugar!%s 5000 sugar.neosoft.com ris1!sugar!%s 5000 sugar.uucp.ferranti.com ris1!sugar!%s 5000 Since the paths file is automatically generated, and the u.ficc file that I feed into pathalias is also automatically generated, this has zero cost for me. -- Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180; Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012; `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"