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From: mikel@codas.att.com (Mikel Manitius)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Rerouting of explicit paths
Message-ID: <11045@codas.att.com>
Date: 7 Apr 88 17:53:33 GMT
References: <4397@b-tech.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T, Altamonte Springs, FL
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In article <4300@b-tech.UUCP> zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff) writes:
>
> 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.

smail [2.5] will already try to reroute any mail that failes uux
if it hasn't been routed already. If the newly routed address still
fails uux, then it will try to return the mail to the originiator.
-- 
					Mikel Manitius
					mikel@codas.att.com