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From: emigh@ecsvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: suggestion for rmail
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Date: Thu, 5-Apr-84 00:02:59 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  5 00:02:59 1984
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  Recently, I have noticed that the routing of mail has changed when
going through certain hosts.  When I am trying to work out a path to
to a certain site, say ucbvax, I used to send mail to myself through
ucbvax as:
mcnc!decvax!ucbvax!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!emigh
This allowed me to find the weak links in the various alternate paths.
In trying to reestablish a path to unm-la I tried this and found that
all paths through decvax short circuited the extra ucbvax!decvax part
and the effective path was:
mcnc!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!emigh

  As I recall, this may have happened with some other sites as well.
Although this makes my simplistic way of testing paths impossible, this
may be a better solution to your changes to rmail--have the forwarding
software look for the best path.  Of course, for any one site, best
might be to reduce your long distance charges by routing it through
an unsuspecting site in your local dialing area!
--
Ted H. Emigh     North Carolina State University     Raleigh  NC
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