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From: thompson@dalcs.UUCP (Michael A. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: sendmail hop count too low?
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Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 13:12:37 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 13 13:12:37 1987
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Reply-To: thompson@dalcs.UUCP (Michael A. Thompson)
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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	If you use the vanilla paths from news articles then yes the
    hop count is liable to be too small, but if you use something like
    pathalias to construct mail paths or forward your mail to a smart
    mailer (i.e. one of the backbone sites) then a hop count of 15
    should be sufficient. smail is a P.D. smart mailer available from
    a comp.sources.unix archive site that you could use instead of
    sendmail (I've never used it but from what I've heard it might
    solve you problem, pathalias is also available from the same
    source)
-- 
Michael A. Thompson, Dept. Math, Stats, & C.S., Dalhousie U., Halifax, N.S.
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