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From: zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Rerouting of explicit paths
Message-ID: <4300@b-tech.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 88 18:31:48 GMT
References: <327@vsi1.UUCP> <475@minya.UUCP>
Reply-To: zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff)
Organization: Branch Technology Ann Arbor, MI
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Here are some quick hacks I did to smail 2.5 to "improve it".  The authors
might want to consider something similar.

Add the following to the beginning of the resolve routine in resolve.c

---------------------------------------------------------
        char *ptr;

/* count number of ! */

for (i=0,ptr = address; ptr = strchr(ptr,'!'); ++ptr,++i);

/* if more than 10, we want to reroute since it's probably a news reply */

if (i > 10) routing = REROUTE;

/* 
   sometimes someone sends mail to "user%othersite@thissite".  Since
   a local address (no ! or @) with a % will fail anyway, let's attempt
   to fix it like a sendmail site would.   
*/
	if (strchr(address,'!') == NULL
	    && strchr(address,'@') == NULL
	    && (ptr = strrchr(address,'%'))) *ptr = '@';

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In my opinion, smail is a nice piece of software.  If you don't use 
it, you probably should.  


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Jon Zeeff           		Branch Technology,
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