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From: john@ipc.uucp ((John E. Babbitt, Jr.))
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: UUCP to UUCP Link w/Sendmail, help!
Message-ID: <443.27922084@ipc.uucp>
Date: 15 Jan 91 05:20:04 GMT
Organization: IPC Pension Services Co., Inc., Seattle WA (206) 343-2333
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Oh, phooey.  I'm unfamilar with sendmail, and I just about had it up here
trying to set up an UUCP link with sendmail.

My friend just got a computer, Sun BSD 4.3/System V.  He has all the uucp
files I recognize, but no smail.  However, he has sendmail, and all this
stuff about sendmail.cf and more, got to me.  Help me before I go bonkers!

Originally, I set up the UUCP files, such as L.sys, L-devices, etc..., but
couldn't figure out how to get the mailer to recognize ipc as a valid site
(there wasn't any smail to put my name in the "paths." database). Then I
learned that there's something called sendmail.cf, and I went to try
editing it.  What a mess.  Anyways, after editing, I tried to send mail to
john@ipc, and it didn't recognize "domain ipc".  So, heck, I tried
john@ipc.UUCP, and it almost worked (is there such a thing as almost?).  It
gave an error... something like uux -1, unknown mailer error number 255. 
Help me please.

All I wanted was to simply have my friend be able to send/receive mail from
my site via an UUCP modem call.   Please reply to me directly, that'll help
me the most.  Thanks.

Regards,

John E. Babbitt, Jr.     (UUCP ...!rutgers!uw-beaver!sumax!thebes!ipc!john)
Systems Manager          (Internet ipc!john@sumax.seattleu.edu) [best]
IPC Pension Services Co., Inc. (or ipc!john@thalatta.com)
Seattle, WA                    (or john@ipc.thalatta.com)