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From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Any auto-adaptive pathalias software out there?
Message-ID: <1618@bigtex.uucp>
Date: 26 Apr 88 15:16:18 GMT
References: <2572@c3engr.UUCP>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX
Lines: 16
Keywords: article path digest update mail

IN article <2572@c3engr.UUCP>, charles@c3engr.UUCP (Charles Green) wrote:
> My apologies if this has been recently discussed, but a recent experience with
> bounced mail prompts me to ask:  Is there any software around which can digest
> the "Path: " header lines of news articles and produce supplemental input to
> the "pathalias" program?

Once again, the Path: line does *not* represent a MAIL path.  It represents
a NEWS path, which is a very different thing.  There are systems that do not
forward mail across news paths.

My vnews puts a line "News-path: " in the mail header, and rn can be told to do
so also.  I manually use this as a last result, if mail gets bounced, but
otherwise use the "From: " line.
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