[comp.mail.uucp] How to tell smail about fast Intern

cball@ishmael (10/12/88)

>/* Written  8:30 pm  Oct  3, 1988 by page@ulowell.UUCP in ishmael:comp.mail.uucp */
>[how many sites are running arpatxt?  I only know of three.]
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I have used arpatxt for the last year with no known problems.  However,
I only use it to generate direct pathalias entries, we cannot use the
internet to forward uucp mail.  Installation was a headache since including
arpatxt output as just another map file results in considerable cross
internet routing.  My solution was to build separate pathalias databases
from comp.mail.maps data and the nic hosttable(via arpatxt).  I merge the
two databases with a combination of join and awk.  This is all automated
so I don't normally pay much attention to it(I had to look at the setup to
write this response).

Charles Ball
cball@inmet.com
Intermetrics, Inc.