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Re: Taylor UUCP on Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Fisher)
Wed Aug 7 01:08:11 1996
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 18:35:36 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jeff Fisher <jeff@kcrg.com>
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr>
cc: "Jan-Patrick Perisse Sys. Admin" <perisse@bigboss.urbi.com.br>,
linux-isp@pcg.com, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199608050716.JAA26313@josephine.sis.pasteur.fr>
On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> Date: Mon, 05 Aug 96 09:16:11 +0200
> From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr>
> To: "Jan-Patrick Perisse Sys. Admin" <perisse@bigboss.urbi.com.br>
> Cc: linux-isp@pcg.com, taylor-uucp@gnu.ai.mit.edu,
> linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP on Linux
>
> On Friday 2 August 96, at 12 h 55, the keyboard of "Jan-Patrick Perisse
> Sys. Admin" <perisse@bigboss.urbi.com.br> wrote:
>
> > I am an ISP and I would like to provide UUCP accont and service to BBSes and
> > intranets.
>
> Very good idea.
>
> > 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 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 :-)
You won't have to do anything to sendmail.cf directly. Build a
sendmail.cf from the m4 source with the mailertable feature. Then read
the docs about mailertables.
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Jeff Fisher Gazette MIS
jeff@kcrg.com Cedar Rapids, IA, US
Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It just happens to be
very selective about who it decides to make friends with.
