chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg) (04/14/88)
[Note that this has been crossposted to comp.mail.uucp and comp.unix.xenix] In article <472@splut.UUCP> jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard) writes: >In article <4634@chinet.UUCP> les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell) writes: >> The machines are small and fairly loaded as is; I don't want each of >>them to have to store the names of all the machines in the known universe >>or to search such a table every time mail is sent. > >This is the reason I haven't installed smail on splut yet. I don't want >to maintain a humongous database (if my 286 machine could even handle >it, and one neighbor indicates it can't) [...] Well, you can run pathalias under Xenix/286 -- I do so on ateng. But let me make one thing perfectly clear: >> You don't need a complete paths file to run smail. << Smail is a very useful program even without a global paths file. Its aliasing facility is nice (much better than SCO's in my opinion), and it supports the ".forward" file for user-controller forwarding. If you don't have the space or inclination to run pathalias, just make a paths file by hand which contains the hosts you talk to often; then smail will route those hosts and you can spell out a bang path from there. >(Anyone with a solution to this one will earn my undying thanks!) Okay, so what are your thanks worth? :-) -- Chip Salzenberg "chip@ateng.UU.NET" or "codas!ateng!chip" A T Engineering My employer may or may not agree with me. "I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's." -- Blake
jimmy@PIC.UCLA.EDU (04/17/88)
In article <237@ateng.UUCP> chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg) writes: > >If you don't have the space or inclination to run pathalias, just make a >paths file by hand which contains the hosts you talk to often; Don't forget to have a listing for yourself in the paths file or smail will have trouble. A sample small paths file would be: host1 host1!%s host2 host2!%s smart-host host1!%s yourhost %s The file must be in alphabetical order and you must have exactly one tab between the host name and the routing (don't try to pretty it up by making everything even). Jim Gottlieb <jimmy@PIC.UCLA.EDU>