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From: lad@eplrx7.UUCP (Lawrence A. Dziegielewski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: UUCP paths confused?
Message-ID: <591@eplrx7.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 88 14:43:07 GMT
Organization: E.I. DuPont Co. Engineering Physics Lab
Lines: 82


	I've been running up against a rather peculiar problem with two Unix
machine I have responsibility for.  It has to do with something that seems
to be reversing the path to the one system I feed news and mail to.

	eplrx7,  my main machine,  gets its news and mail directly from
uunet.  This has worked without too much trouble.  About a month ago I added
my personal UNIX box,  mouse, an ATT 3b1 to UUCP by allowing it to call eplrx7 
for it's news/mail.  So the path should look like this:

	uunet----eplrx7----mouse

	eplrx7 and mouse can exchange mail without a hitch.  From mouse,  I
can 'mail eplrx7!lad'  with no problem and from eplrx7 I seem to be able to
'mail mouse!lad' with no problem.  The trouble starts when mouse gets mail
from uunet or beyond.  A mail message with the path:

	...anywhere!uunet!eplrx7!mouse!user

gets translated to:

	...anywhere!uunet!mouse!eplrx7!user

	This has me baffled to no end. I have looked at all of the files
that should make a difference,  /usr/lib/news/mailpaths,  the map entries for
both machines (included below),  and I still can't figure this one out.
It's consistant,  anytime mouse gets sent mail from beyond eplrx7 it does
this.  Is pathalias on uunet doing this or can it be something in my
configuration? 

	One last note,  mouse polls eplrx7,  eplrx7 never polls mouse.
The L.sys entry for mouse on eplrx7 is:

mouse	Never


	Thanks in advance for any light shed on this problem.

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UUCP Map entry for mouse

#N	mouse
#S	ATT 3B1, System V 3.51
#O	The MouseTrap 7300
#C	Lawrence A. Dziegielewski
#E	mouse!lad
#T	+1 302 731 1583
#P	60 N. College Ave. - Suite B,  Newark,  DE 19711
#L	39 48 N / 75 30 W
#R	
#W	lad@mouse.UUCP(Lawrence A. Dziegielewski);Tue,  16 Feb 10:43:03 1988
#U	eplrx7
#

mouse	eplrx7(DEMAND)

-----------------

UUCP Map entry for eplrx7

 
#N	eplrx7
#S	DEC Vaxstation II,  MORE/bsd 4.3
#O	E.I. DuPont Co.
#C	Lawrence A. Dziegielewski
#E	eplrx7!lad
#T	+1 302 695 1311
#P	Expiremental Station, E357/318, Wilmington,  DE 19898
#L	39 49 N / 75 30 W
#R	
#W	lad@eplrx7.UUCP(Lawrence A. Dziegielewski);Tue,  16 Feb 10:43:03 1988
#U	uunet mouse
#

eplrx7	uunet(DEMAND), mouse (DEMAND)

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        Lawrence A. Dziegielewski       |       E.I. Dupont Co.
        uunet!eplrx7!lad                |       Engineering Physics Lab
        Cash-We-Serve 76127,104         |       Wilmington, Delaware 19898
        MABELL:  (302) 695-1311         |       Mail Stop: E357-318