Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!jstewart From: jstewart@ccs.carleton.ca (John Stewart) Subject: Re: From: line Message-ID: <1991Mar27.160511.21042@ccs.carleton.ca> Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada References: Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1991 16:05:11 GMT In article brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes: > My machine's name is laverne, but our UUCP name is widener. Do you really have to do this? I had to setup uucp on a machine named alfred. Since alfred was already taken in the uucp maps, I picked cunews as the uucp name for the machine. Everything was fine until someone tried to route some large messages to a local site via alfred instead of cunews and they got fired down to the real alfred uucp site in florida via uunet. My advice would be to avoid having non-matching host and uucp names if at all possible. It's just too confusing, not to mention all the sendmail hacking it took to get it to work properly. -- "For those of you with aluminum or fibreglass canoes and paddles, you might try carrying your canoe around on the roof of your car anytime after New Years Day. Anytime before that looks pretty ridiculous. But after New Years Day, you just never know. Spring could come early." -- Bill Mason