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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: A question about uucp and another about mail
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Date: 28 Feb 89 06:14:23 GMT
Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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What is the correct way to convince uucp to only perform transfers at
a single time? What I want is for it to not process all outgoing
requests until one particular time or until I manually initiate a
connection. The best I could come up with is to have a short window
where the transfer is allowed and manually edit my Systems file for
connections during other than during the window. Ugh.  Not to mention
that my newsfeed is likely to stomp over any short window.

Any suggestions?

The second question came from the following:

I set up a mail server which uses the "To: " field to decide how to
handle incoming mail.  What it does is call /usr/bin/mail to extract
one mail message from the mailbox, puts it into an in.<number> file,
and then, if the "To: " name matches any one of several local names,
changes the file name to something a little more informative.

The odd thing is that I received a message "To: archives" which got
to my mailbox. Much to my surprise, there was no information in the
message that could have got it to the right mailbox. "Archives" won't
do it because I have no alias or user name that matches that.

So what info did my mailer (smail 2.5 on Microport's V/386 3.0e) use
to figure out where to put the message?  And where did the info go?

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Bill
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