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In article <1992Nov10.214053.4676@oneb.almanac.bc.ca> kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay) writes:

>I am running smail 3+ on an SCO XENIX system, and have noticed a serious
>problem with routing.

>Mail for imex.org is being misrouted to system panth. Panth was the correct
>site a year ago, but is no longer handling imex.org mail, as the smail paths
>file shows:

>#
>.n81.z89.imex.org	cowichn!%s
>n81.z89.imex.org	cowichn!%s
>.imex.org	cowichn!%s
>imex.org	cowichn!%s
>panth.almanac.bc.ca		panth!%s
>#

UPDATE: I received a note from tron@veritas.com, who suggested I try 'pathto
user@imex.org' to see what resulted. The result was 'user@cowichn', which is
correct. At the same time, two messages were misrouted to panth. Here are
the headers:

From mala!cs.toronto.edu!pathadmin Thu Nov 12 00:43:16 1992 remote from oneb
Received: by oneb.almanac.bc.ca (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.18.1 #18.33)
	id <m0mpa8w-0001EnC@oneb.almanac.bc.ca>; Thu, 12 Nov 92 00:43 PST
Received: by mala.bc.ca (DECUS UUCP ///2.0/);
          Thu, 12 Nov 92 00:19:56 PST
Received: from neat.cs.toronto.edu by MALINS.MALA.BC.CA (MX V3.1C) with SMTP;
          Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:19:50 PST
Received: by neat.cs.toronto.edu id <47987>; Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:19:09 -0500
From: Path database maintainer <pathadmin@cs.toronto.edu>
To: Richard.Whittaker@p0.f0.n81.z89.imex.org
CC: pathadmin@cs.toronto.edu
Errors-To: Path database maintainer <pathadmin@cs.toronto.edu>
Subject: errors in map entry/entries for bmaster
Message-ID: <92Nov12.031909est.47987@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:18:57 -0500
<message text>

From mala!cs.toronto.edu!pathadmin Thu Nov 12 00:47:32 1992 remote from oneb
Received: by oneb.almanac.bc.ca (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.18.1 #18.33)
	id <m0mpaD5-0001QZC@oneb.almanac.bc.ca>; Thu, 12 Nov 92 00:47 PST
Received: by mala.bc.ca (DECUS UUCP ///2.0/);
          Thu, 12 Nov 92 00:45:01 PST
Received: from neat.cs.toronto.edu by MALINS.MALA.BC.CA (MX V3.1C) with SMTP;
          Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:44:54 PST
Received: by neat.cs.toronto.edu id <47987>; Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:44:01 -0500
From: Path database maintainer <pathadmin@cs.toronto.edu>
To: Richard.Whittaker@p0.f4.n81.z89.imex.org
CC: pathadmin@cs.toronto.edu
Errors-To: Path database maintainer <pathadmin@cs.toronto.edu>
Subject: errors in map entry/entries for cowichn
Message-ID: <92Nov12.034401est.47987@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:43:48 -0500
<message text>

Note that panth does not appear in the headers. How can this happen?
If /usr/lib/smail/paths isn't being read, where is the misrouting
information being found by smail?

What am I missing here?


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