Hello, Bob...

Aug 05, 2003 at 22:15, Bob Jones wrote to Mike Tripp:

 BJ> Then you are in favor of the line

 BJ> SEND NORMAL NOARC 

 BJ> is a NO-OP in the route.cfg file....

 BJ> In my opinion, that is stupid.  I don't agree with your analogy as 
 BJ> being equivalent.

Yes, it should be a no-op. Just because it is possible to construct a no-op
doesn't mean that an entire scheme is stupid. If that were the case, then
we wouldn't have no-op instructions, would we?

 BJ> I believe squish documentation states that the FIRST line found that 
 BJ> matches is what is executed and that's it....  

What section of the documentation are you referring to? I think it is
ambiguous, at most:

"Routing commands in ROUTE.CFG are executed from top to bottom in
sequence.  In other words, if you place a certain routing command
before another, you can be assured that Squish will process each
command in the order you specified."

Further,

% However, if this command was mistakenly placed above the
% other two commands, you would find that ALL of your mail
% was being sent to 123/3 regardless.  Since the mail
% is archived and changed to a crash flavour by this
% command, the following Send commands would not find any
% mail to process, which was probably not your original
% intent.

     Route Crash 1:123/3 World

Note that the comments say that the reason any following Send commands
would not find any mail to process is that the mail has been archived and
changed to a crash flavour; they don't say that they aren't executed
because World was used to catch all mail for all nodes.

The documentation for the Gateroute command mentions that the gaterouted
flavour would usually be normal precisely so that Route.Cfg can process it
further.

Later, the detailed documentation for ROUTE.CFG says:

"The Send command scans for uncompressed mail with a normal
flavour, compresses it, and changes the mail's flavour."

I read that to mean that EACH COMMAND scans anew.

Regards,

Jerry Schwartz

mailto:jerryschwartz{at}comfortable.com
http://www.writebynight.com

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