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From: wnp@killer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: uupc question
Message-ID: <2201@killer.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 10:58:42 EST
Article-I.D.: killer.2201
Posted: Tue Nov 24 10:58:42 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Nov-87 15:38:37 EST
References: <2061@isis.UUCP>
Reply-To: wnp@killer.UUCP (Wolf Paul)
Organization: The Unix(tm) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx
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In article <2061@isis.UUCP> ross@isis.UUCP (Ross McConnell) writes:
> ....
>foo, there is no mail. When I examine the LOGFILE on foo, it turns
>out that uucp has requeued the mail, and is now trying to rmail it
>(on foo) to foo!myself. Why doesn't it realize that it has already
>reached foo, and should now just rmail to myself?

On all the UNIX systems I have ever worked on, if you send mail to
"system!user", where "system" is the local nodename, mail correctly
discards the "system!" part of the mail path. If this does not work
on "foo", there seems to be something strange about foo's mail software.

One way to fix that would be to go into UUPC's mail source, and put
in a check to see if the first part of the mail address is the same
as $MAILSERV, and to strip it off in the commands that are put into
the uucp spool files.

Wolf Paul
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