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Re: Taylor UUCP on Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Tue Aug 6 09:26:41 1996
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr>
To: longyear@netcom.com (Al Longyear)
cc: bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr, perisse@bigboss.urbi.com.br,
linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: longyear@netcom.com (Al Longyear)'s message of "Mon, 05 Aug
96 20:15:26 PDT."
<199608060315.UAA13073@netcom17.netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 96 09:18:41 +0200
On Monday 5 August 96, at 20 h 15, the keyboard of longyear@netcom.com
(Al Longyear) wrote:
> Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
> > > I think it is possible to have all e-mail accounts of a BBS or
> > > intranet linked to just one account in my system making it sth like
> > > user%bbs@my.system isn't it? How Can I do it?
I didn't write that! I *replied* to that question.
> > I don't really see why you want to do it. Why not the regular system?
> > (user@bbs.my.system or user@bbs.any-domain) It is certainly possible but
> > probably not easy. Have fun with sendmail.cf :-)
>
> Why are you playing with sendmail.cf? For shame upon you! You should never
> have to touch sendmail.cf. All of the changes are done within the 'mc'
> file which is the source to the m4 macro processor whose output is the
> correct sendmail.cf.
I am not playing with sendmail.cf. As a matter of principle, all my mail
setups are done by a generation script (the Jussieu kit). But I'm
interested to see the mc files to do that.
Anyway, it was not the point. I said that it is probably not a good idea
to use user%bbs@provider.com instead of the canonical
user@bbs.provider.com or user@bbs.org.
> By the way, UUCP is handled by a mail domaintable. It is not even __IN__
> sendmail.cf that uucp domains are specified.
I know, I manage several UUCP sites.
> O'Rielly has a good "grizzly bear" book on UUCP networking as well.
> (This is other than Olaf's excellent work.) It worked for me using
The last time I read it, it was quite obsolete, not covering Taylor-UUCP
and containing incredibly old info about Net News. Is there a recent
edition?
> > > I have another problem: I have a machine with a multi-serial with the modems
> > > and the e-mail resides in another machine. How could I have the BBSes that
> > > make UUCP connections to the modem server get their mail packet in another
> > > machine?
> >
> > It is certainly possible (but I didn't try it) to have an account with a
> > login shell which opens a connection to the UUCP server.
>
> That is the classic UUCP interface; to have getty/login launch the uucico
> code as the shell. It is how things are normally done with 'g' (the most
> common UUCP) protocol.
Sorry, but it is not the question. The original inquirer, Jan-Patrick
Perisse <perisse@bigboss.urbi.com.br> wanted a solution for his setup
where the modem machine (the "terminal server") is different from the
UUCP host... So the UUCP solution is probably to use UUCP over TCP (my
opinion) or to have getty/login launch a 'rlogin -8' or something like
that to the UUCP host which will run uucico (never tried that).
> Actually, the simplest is to have getty/login run the uucico software
> based upon a login sequence from a modem.
Not in the described setup. How do you do when the user has an acces
server (CIsco, Livingston, Annex, other Linux box, etc)?
Sorry, Al, I appreciate the work you do on PPP (I use it a lot daily) but
I don't think you replied to the point.
