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From: mechjgh@tness1.UUCP (Greg Hackney 214+464-2771)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Rerouting of explicit paths
Message-ID: <688@tness1.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 88 00:08:42 GMT
References: <327@vsi1.UUCP> <475@minya.UUCP> <4300@b-tech.UUCP>
Reply-To: mechjgh@tness1.UUCP (Greg Hackney)
Organization: S.W. Bell, Network Engineering, Dallas
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In article <4300@b-tech.UUCP> zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff) writes:
>
>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

Thanks. A lot of people emailed that they preferred the rerouting
of bang paths if the route was > 10 paths. I installed your mods.

Now, how about a mod to tell smail to REROUTE a bang path if
the path is no good. i.e. "mail foo!nobody" fails if I don't
have a direct connection to foo.

Or have I missed a feature?

--
Greg

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