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From: Irving_Wolfe@happym.wa.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Help with UUCP mail and sendmail
Message-ID: <2381@happym.wa.com>
Date: 10 Feb 91 17:13:04 GMT
References: <1991Feb7.145251.2329@sctc.com>
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Organization: Happy Man Corp., Vashon Island
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I believe the sendmail.cf files shipped with 2.0 are seriously broken for
anyone using uucp rather than (or in addition to) tcp/ip network type
connections.

I have fixed a couple of bugs that make it somewhat usable, but I still get
badly munged headers (though the mail now goes in both directions reliably).

I would be happy to continue to learn about sendmail and produce and post a
good sendmail.cf file, with without ftp on the Internet I have no idea how to
get the necessary information.  If someone better connected would be willing
to get me the sendmail sources package and Eric's documentation on the .cf
files, I'll get to work on it because I really need a fixed version.  The
material in Evi Nemeth's book was helpful but not quite adequate for me to
complete the fixes.

The following diff shows what I changed in sendmail.mailhost.cf.  It should at
least get the mail through (with munged headers).  "bippo" is the name of the
machine (connected by uucp) that does the address translation for outside
transmission.

< is mine, > is the old way; I did this backwards

19c19
< Dj$?m$w.$m$|$w$.
---
> Dj$?m $w.$m $| $w $.
37,38c37,38
< DRbippo
< CRbippo
---
> DR mail-relay
> CR mail-relay
65d62
< Dmbippo.wa.com
80c77
< Dq$g ($?x$x$|$g$.$?w on $w$.)
---
> Dq$g$?x ($x)$.
264c259
<       A=uux - $h!rmail ($u), E=\n
---
>       A=uux - -r $h!rmail ($u)
270a266
> 
338,339c334,335
< # R<@$-.uucp>:$+              $#error $:Never heard of UUCP host $1
< # R$+<@$-.uucp>               $#error $:Never heard of UUCP host $2
---
> R<@$-.uucp>:$+                $#error $:Never heard of UUCP host $1
> R$+<@$-.uucp>         $#error $:Never heard of UUCP host $2
343c339
< R$*<@$*.$+>$*         $#$M    $@$R $:$1<@$2.$3>$4     user@any.domain
---
> #R$*<@$*.$+>$*                $#$M    $@$R $:$1<@$2.$3>$4
user@any.domain
345c341
< #R$*<@$+.$->$*                $#ddn $@ $2.$3 $:$1<@$2.$3>$4
user@any.domain
---
> R$*<@$+.$->$*         $#ddn $@ $2.$3 $:$1<@$2.$3>$4   user@any.domain