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[Chip Salzenberg]

[Note that this has been crossposted to comp.mail.uucp and comp.unix.xenix]

In article <472 at splut.UUCP> jay at splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard) writes:
>In article <4634 at chinet.UUCP> les at chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>>  The machines are small and fairly loaded as is; I don't want each of
>>them to have to store the names of all the machines in the known universe
>>or to search such a table every time mail is sent.
>
>This is the reason I haven't installed smail on splut yet. I don't want
>to maintain a humongous database (if my 286 machine could even handle
>it, and one neighbor indicates it can't) [...]

Well, you can run pathalias under Xenix/286 -- I do so on ateng.
But let me make one thing perfectly clear:

    >>  You don't need a complete paths file to run smail.  <<

Smail is a very useful program even without a global paths file.  Its
aliasing facility is nice (much better than SCO's in my opinion),
and it supports the ".forward" file for user-controller forwarding.

If you don't have the space or inclination to run pathalias, just make a
paths file by hand which contains the hosts you talk to often; then smail
will route those hosts and you can spell out a bang path from there.

>(Anyone with a solution to this one will earn my undying thanks!)

Okay, so what are your thanks worth?    :-)

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