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From: rac@sherpa.UUCP (Roger Cornelius)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: uucp/uucico problems
Message-ID: <602@sherpa.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jun 91 14:04:20 GMT
References: <417@sunatb.UUCP>
Organization: Personal System Computing,  St. Petersburg, FL
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From article <417@sunatb.UUCP>, by bodifee@sunatb.UUCP (Peter Bodifee):
- 
- I experience exactly the opposite. When I mail a message to a remote user
- as soon as I type the 'end-of-message' command in mail my modem starts
- dialing to send the message. I rather have mail (usually more then 1 message
- queued and then being send when cron calls uusched and uuxqt to send the
- queued mail messages. I have only connection to one other remote system and
- use 'Any' in the schedule field in the file Systems.
- My cron calls uusched and uuxqt once an hour.
- 
- Can somebody put a light on this dark spot?   

Creating the file `/etc/default/mail' with the line:
spoolonly
worked on SCO Xenix 2.3.2 (286) to prevent an immediate poll of the
site.  I assume it also works on the 386.  If you're using a value-added
mailer (e.g. smail, etc.) it may not work.

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Roger Cornelius          rac@sherpa.UUCP         uunet!sherpa!rac