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From: vskahan@lgnp1.MASA.COM (Vince Skahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: uucp and the Apollo network
Summary: get a hold of smail.....
Keywords: uucp, usenet, apollo,readnews
Message-ID: <18@lgnp1.MASA.COM>
Date: 23 Oct 88 04:00:00 GMT
References: <3f2be90d.14e07@gtephx.UUCP>
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Organization: Lagniappe Systems, Norristown, PA
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In article <3f2be90d.14e07@gtephx.UUCP>, covertr@gtephx.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) writes:
> We have a network of Apollo D3000 and D4000 (around 300 hundred of them!!)
> in an apollo network. We can't seem to get uucp and readnew/vnews to handle the
> network properly. the problem is that the local node name (Neptune for example)
> is tagged to the end of our uucp address. WE don't use the node name, so
> we can't send e-mail in response to messages on newsgroups. We have to manually
> edit the address of the person that the e-mail is directed towards to remove

there are a couple of ways around it...you can change your UUCP mailer
to hard-code the USENET gateway name in as the sending host (rather than
the nodename of the node you're writing on).

the other way (which is a bit easier) is to use smail as the UUCP mailer
in sendmail.cf and compile smail to hard-code the USENET gateway name
in.

I'm also looking for a prettier solution (one that's easy but ugly is to
just change the /sys/node_data/thishost name of *every* host to the
gateway's name - the host*name* isn't used for anything but generating
the mail from/reply addresses and you can put anything there with no
problems...)

==> be aware that the folks at Apollo don't like the idea of messing
with what's in the thishost file...


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				Vince Skahan
	UUCP: lgnp1!vskahan			Internet: skahan@boeing.com