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From: daveb@llama.rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Sendmail and pathalias
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Date: 22 Aug 88 05:11:43 GMT
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In <23668@uunet.UU.NET> dsc@izimbra.CSS.GOV (where was george?) writes:
>In article <4540@saturn.ucsc.edu> koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm) writes:
>>standard set of diffs for sendmail so it looks stuff up in a pathalias
>>database?  I am starting to modify sendmail on my own, but since
>
>look at either the `ida' enhancements which should be reappearing soon
>in comp.sources.unix according to paul vixie or take a look at the file
>`pub/uucpdomain.shar.Z' in the anonymous ftp directory on
>`uunet.uu.net'.  the latter is used at rutgers (which does active
>rerouting) as well as seismo & uunet (which do not) and though i
>haven't updated the shar file since going to sendmail 5.59, the changes
>should patch fairly easily into that version.  the supplied diffs add
>uucp hostname lookup operators, '${' & '$}', which are analogous to
>'$[' & '$]'.
>

Another way to do this is to run sendmail with smail 2.X, which is found
at any number of comp.sources.unix archives.  This is what the UUCP
Project recommends.

I am given to understand that there is another commonly used
alternative, whose name escapes me at the moment.  Uupath?  Dunno, I'm
sure some fan will correct me.

-dB
"Ready when you are Raoul!"
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