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From: andy@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Andy S Poling)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: UUCP/Internet mail gateway S/W?
Summary: rmail is the key
Keywords: uucp, gateway, rmail, sendmail
Message-ID: <7245@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 20 Dec 90 19:13:07 GMT
References: <4993@dogie.macc.wisc.edu>
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In article <4993@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> dhoyman@vms.macc.wisc.edu writes:
>Our dept. recently came onto the Internet and I need to find a way to connect 
>the existing uucp mail to sendmail.  Our existing sites are 3B2's running ATT
>system V unix (3.1.1).  I have endured the rigors of configuring sendmail
>to work with the ATT mail, but I can't see how to get the uucp mail to send 
>it's mail thru sendmail (and out to Internetland).  

I think the solution to your problem is to install the rmail from the
sendmail source distribution.  When mail comes in via UUCP, the mail is fed
to rmail.  I think your existent rmail doesn't know about sendmail - just
how to forward mail to your UUCP neighbors.  The rmail in the sendmail
source distribution also parses those UGLY From ... remote from ... and
invokes sendmail with command-line arguments that ensure reasonable return
addresses.

I can provide a SysV port of sendmail's rmail to anyone who drops me a line.

-Andy

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