emigh@ncsugn.UUCP (11/22/87)
In article <164@manta.UUCP> brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes) writes: >Smail (current version 2.5) and Pathalias (current version 9) are >intended to be used together, along with the UUCP map information >updated and published monthly in comp.mail.maps, to provide "smart" >mail routing. For example, with smail and pathalias installed, you no >longer need to figure out explicit bang paths in order to post mail >from your site to any "known" UUCP site (where a "known" UUCP site is >defined as a site with an entry in the published UUCP maps). Simply >address mail to user@site or site!user, and smail (together with the >database created by pathalias) will determine the "optimal" route from >your host to site. Smail can be used without having pathalias or even getting the comp.mail.maps database if you are a hop or two away from a site that does have the database and uses pathalias. For example, ncsugn uses the following paths list: .ncsugn.ncsu.edu %s 0 genetics genetics!%s 95 mcnc mcnc!%s 95 mouse mouse!%s 95 ncsugn %s 0 ncsuvx ncsuvx!%s 95 ngn ngn!%s 95 smart-host ncsuvx!%s 95 (slightly edited to retain the anonymity of some sites). This gets all our mail directly to those we have uucp connections with and the "smart-host" entry sends to ncsuvx all the rest of the mail. (Of course, we have ncsuvx's permission to use them in that way). -- Ted H. Emigh, Dept. Genetics and Statistics, NCSU, Raleigh, NC uucp: mcnc!ncsuvx!ncsugn!emigh internet: emigh%ncsugn.ncsu.edu BITNET: NEMIGH@TUCC @ncsuvx.ncsu.edu:emigh@ncsugn.ncsu.edu