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Article #1601Re: novice question re mail maps/bang paths.
From: Leslie Mikesell
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 1990 18:19
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 1990 18:19
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In article <1990Aug20.210800.21492@cbnews.att.com> joe@cbnews.att.com (Joseph Judge) writes: > What I did, in college, was have a friend at that closest "smart" > site send me an ascii copy of his "paths" database. > Then, if I need to send somewhere, I grep it out, send the email to > "that_smart_host!whatever_path!user" Probably a wasted effort. If the smart site is willing to forward for you it should also do the path lookup. You should have been able to send to smart_host!end_host_or_domain!user and let the mailer on the other machine do the lookup using its current paths data. Les Mikesell les@chinet.chi.il.us
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!mcdphx!mcdchg!chinet!les From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: novice question re mail maps/bang paths. Message-ID: <1990Aug21.181956.7571@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 21 Aug 90 18:19:56 GMT References: <6745.26c97d33@vax1.tcd.ie> <1990Aug20.210800.21492@cbnews.att.com> Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX Lines: 14