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From: sob@neuro1.UUCP (Stan Barber)
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Subject: Re: Mail routing -- problems showing up
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Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 15:47:04 EDT
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In article <4786@mit-eddie.UUCP> gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner) writes:
>I have always had a problem with sendmail/pathalias optimizing a path I
>didn't want optimized.  Sometimes, I want to see the message go through
>the entire path of machines, and other times I happen to know a few
>things about the route to the destination machine that pathalias doesn't
>know about (like hosts not necessarily in the pathalias tables).

I do it by configuring sendmail to pass the address through as is
if the first host is a neighboring uucp site. It will only route
via a pathalias generated path if the first host in the path is
not a neighbor (i.e. not in L.sys) OR if the address is of
the form user@host.UUCP

If you like, I will send a copy of the configuration file to you.




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