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From: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Bug (feature?) in smail 2.3
Message-ID: <2088@cxsea.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-May-87 15:26:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: cxsea.2088
Posted: Sun May 24 15:26:20 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 26-May-87 01:24:08 EDT
Reply-To: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
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I recently brought up smail 2.3 on a System V machine without
sendmail.  It works quite nicely, except for one little problem.
Basically, smail appears not to look up the path when only '!'s are
used.  So a path like user@machine would make it down to getpath and
have the cost filled in from the path file, but something like
machine!user wouldn't.  This means that if DEFQUEUE is defined,
machine!user type paths will always just be queued.

I'd like to be able to use QUEUECOST, as we have a bunch of local
machines connected via uucp over Ethernet, so mail to these machines
should go immediately, and other external machines connected via
modem and X.25 links, mail to which should be queued. The costs in
the paths file reflect this, but of course these costs don't get
used.

Is this behaviour a feature or a bug, and if a bug, does anyone have
a fix for it? If it's a feature, is there any to force smail to do
what I want (not what I say 8-)).

Thanx for any information anyone might have.
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