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sbrant@npal.rn.com wrote:
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: Eh gods...

:   My feed point wants us to stop doing routing from here.  We use VMS uucp
:   2.0.  He says that because our system is establishing routing, we are
:   not fully using his router in the best way. He is running smtp.  

:   I am not clear as to how to establish this as if we do not have the
:   paths database online, the uucp blows up and will not send the mail
:   and responds with INVALID internet address.

:   I think the solution is to use the mail_rewrite rules to intercept
:   all outbound-to addresses and to insert the routing info forcing
:   the message to go to the router system.  I have attempted to do this
:   and it does modify the b.xxx file and the d.xxx file remains ok with
:   the proper @ address and uucp likes this.  But I am not certain if this
:   really works, or is the correct method.

	A better solution is to have a very small paths database.  Have an
entry for your site and any you call.  Put a smart-host line pointing to your
UUCP/SMTP neighbor.  Take out the rest of the UUCP entries.  Run the map
build procedure and you should have a working paths file.


-Earle
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