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From: schnoebe@convex.com (Eric Schnoebelen)
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Subject: Re: Mailing a UUCP site
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Date: 22 Mar 91 19:58:46 GMT
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Tim Endres (time@ice.com) writes:
-In article <12752@ucrmath.ucr.edu>, bruce@watnxt2.ucr.edu (Ahmon Dancy) writes:
-> I am having trouble mailing UUCP sites from my host machine.  I am using a
-> Unix BSD 4.3 on a NeXT.  I'm not sure what other information to provide.
-> Any help is appreciated.
-
-NeXT Machines have what I consider to be an *enormous* bug in their
-mailer. The outgoing lines from the uucico that I connected with used
-CR/NL to terminate lines instead of the UNIX traditional NL.

	I have tracked this problem down before, and it is caused by
the default sendmail configuration on the NeXT machines.  They default
to being properly internet aware, (which requires CR/NL terminated
lines) but they also use it on the UUCP rules.

	If memory serves, there is a variable in each mailer rule that
specifies the line termination.  This variable is 'E=' and should be
set to 'E=\n'  for the uucp mailer rule, and 'E=\r\n' on the internet
mailer rule.

	Fix these mailer rules (talk to a sendmail guru for more
information, I'm certainly not one) and the problem described by Tim
disappears.

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