Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:1628 comp.mail.headers:396 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!peregrine!elroy!ames!husc6!purdue!decwrl!vixie From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: what do _YOU_ mean by "all routing"?? Message-ID: <33@volition.dec.com> Date: 13 Aug 88 01:09:44 GMT References: <676@bacchus.DEC.COM> <881@vsi1.UUCP><3674@palo-alto.DEC.COM> <3732@palo-alto.DEC.COM> <4695@b-tech.UUCP> Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 23 In article <4695@b-tech.UUCP> zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff) writes: # [...] If using news return paths are really # the problem, you might consider some method of attempting to identify # them - something like "this path is *really* bad, I'm going to # reroute it" or "this looks like a news reply via the path line". Please don't! If you see a lot of replies using news paths, try to identify the sites which originate them and try to get them to fix their news software. NetNews and RN both suggest in their documentation that you use the "From:" line for replies rather than the "Path:" line, and sites which don't do this should be educated. NetNews (vnews/readnews) will use /usr/lib/news/mailpaths, which can be pointed at a smart host (i.e., which does routing on the next-hop if they don't speak to it directly); the generic solution is to use smail, which can also be trivially configured to use a smart-host. (RN would need smail, sadly). Smail is freely available, check the comp.unix.sources archives. -- Paul Vixie Digital Equipment Corporation Work: vixie@dec.com Play: paul@vixie.UUCP Western Research Laboratory uunet!decwrl!vixie uunet!vixie!paul Palo Alto, California, USA +1 415 853 6600 +1 415 864 7013