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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Sendmail and uucp
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.212746.10795@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 4 Apr 91 21:27:46 GMT
References: <2570@plx.UUCP>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <2570@plx.UUCP> evan@plxsun.uucp (Evan Bigall) writes:
>
>I installed sendmail, struggled with the configuration, and basically got it
>working.  The one catch I had was that I had to link /bin/rmail to sendmail
>to allow the uucp sites to mail to the smtp sites via the central machine.
>
>Everything works fine, except that mail from the uucp sites to the smtp sites
>comes through had being from uucp@gateway-site.  

  Pick up some sendmail sources somewhere.  You can use the Berkeley
version or the IDA version.  Look in the directory rmail.  Compile and
install this rmail, instead of using your link.  Since rmail is a
relatively simple program, you should not have too much difficulty.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940