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- From: ake@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.misc
- Subject: Re: UUCP-SMTP help request
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 21:46:37 -0500
- Organization: Science Applications Intl Corp - Dayton, Ohio
- Lines: 28
- Message-ID: <1gopmdINN2s0@dayub.dayton.saic.com>
- References: <1992Dec16.111419.21308@npal.rn.com>
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- sbrant@npal.rn.com wrote:
- : --
- : 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
- --
- Earle Ake Internet: <ake@dayton.saic.com> NSI-DECnet (SPAN): 28276::ake
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