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From: steve@ivaux.UUCP (Steve Lemke)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: A question about uucp and another about mail
Summary: What about plain old uucp?
Message-ID: <275@ivaux.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 89 21:48:44 GMT
References: <414@twwells.uucp> <138@psgdc> <750@twwells.uucp> <9059@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <753@twwells.uucp> <572@srhqla.UUCP>
Reply-To: lemke@apple.ucsb.edu (Steve Lemke)
Organization: Computer Products Design, Santa Barbara, CA
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In article <572@srhqla.UUCP> levin@srhqla.UUCP (Michael Levin) writes:
}
}	I think that the best way to accomplish what you are trying to
}do is to take advantage of the time-out that uucp systems use for failed
}communications.  Assuming you are running HDB, there is a file for EACH
}system that you talk to in /usr/spool/uucp/.Status

[details about how to do this under HDB deleted]

}	IF you are NOT using HDB, *similar* features (albeit not as elegant)
}are available with the OLD uucp system.  However, it's been so long since
}I've played with any of the old stuff that I don't remember what the exact
}structure of the STATUS file is.  But you could probably do something similar.
}Please drop me a note and let me know how it turns out.

Does anyone have any idea how to do this with the "OLD" uucp system?  I'm
running A/UX (Apple's UNIX on a Mac II -- SVR2 with a little BSD).  I have a
direct link to another system, and for every message I type in to my system,
it immediately calls the other machine, and sends it.  When I'm reading news,
(and actually any other time as well) I'd rather just batch stuff, and send
it all at once shortly before the other machine is due to make it's connec-
tions.  News Followups (like this one) don't go out instantly, only mail does.

I've tried faking it by having STST or LCK files, but apparrently the contents
of those files is important, and I don't know what they are.  I'd like to have
something around always preventing a call except when uucico gets called from
my cron file (say once/hour or whatever).  Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.
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