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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: UUCP mail problem
Message-ID: <koN3320w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 5 Jun 91 14:05:55 GMT
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dat33228@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Derek A. Taubert) writes:
> jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) writes:
> >In article <741@synopsys.COM> brianc@bambam.synopsys.com (Brian Caslis  
> >(brianc@synopsys.com)) writes:
> >> I'm having a problem establishing a uucp connection. The two machines
> >> (a NeXT and a Sun 3) can establish the link fine, but when I try to
> >> send mail to the Sun, they establish the connection but the transmission
> >> of the mail hangs and eventually times out.
> 
> Well, I had the exact same problem with a SYSV unix box and a Sun.  Sounds to
> like Sun has done some nonstandard things to uucp.

Same here. Our system won't talk successfully to SunOS 4.1.1 UUCP, but
connects to other things with no problems.


mathew