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Re: Smail3.1.19, Its modifying bang addresses - HELP

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From: Chip Salzenberg
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 1991 20:08
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According to dean@coplex.UUCP (Dean Brooks):
>   When given a destination of something like "uunet!joe!wow!fred", it
>will look the address up in the pathalias maps and try and optimize
>the path.  Sometimes this is undesirable if a certain path is desired.

Smail 3 only routes the first element in any bang path.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
       "If Usenet exists, then what is its mailing address?"  -- me
             "c/o The Daily Planet, Metropolis."  -- Jeff Daiell
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Message-ID: <279755CD.5102@tct.uucp>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!think.com!spool2.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!apple!vsi1!daver!tscs!tct!chip
References: <243@coplex.UUCP>

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!think.com!spool2.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!apple!vsi1!daver!tscs!tct!chip
From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Smail3.1.19, Its modifying bang addresses - HELP
Message-ID: <279755CD.5102@tct.uucp>
Date: 18 Jan 91 20:08:44 GMT
References: <243@coplex.UUCP>
Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL
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