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From: swatt@ittvax.UUCP (Alan S. Watt)
Newsgroups: net.mail,net.news
Subject: Re: Fantastic Elastic Plastic USENET address
Message-ID: <1093@ittvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Nov-83 08:41:01 EST
Article-I.D.: ittvax.1093
Posted: Mon Nov  7 08:41:01 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 8-Nov-83 20:42:50 EST
References: umcp-cs.3606
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Those of you running "sendmail" can optimize UUCP paths directly
in the mail system.  The configuration lines are:

	# Define class 'U' to be all those systems with which
	# you have a direct UUCP link.  Put this stuff up at
	# the top where you keep local information.  You can
	# also use the alternate 'F' directive, to define the
	# class as the contents of a file.
	CUsys1 sys2 sys3 sys4 sys5 ...

	# Down in ruleset 0, just before the call to the UUCP
	# mailer.  This drops all the prefix systems up to the
	# last host which is locally connected.
	R$+$=U!$+	$2!$3

This will not optimize paths to systems for which you might know a
better path, but it will route stuff immediately to any locally
connected nodes.

	- Alan S. Watt
	{decvax, allegra, research, purdue, duke}!swatt