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From: rpw3@amdcad.AMD.COM (Rob Warnock)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: A question about uucp and another about mail
Message-ID: <24790@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 10 Mar 89 07:59:15 GMT
References: <414@twwells.uucp> <138@psgdc> <750@twwells.uucp>
Reply-To: rpw3@amdcad.UUCP (Rob Warnock)
Organization: [Consultant] San Mateo, CA
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In article <750@twwells.uucp> bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
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| I know about uucp -r. But what you and several other respondents have
| answered is the wrong question. I don't want the uucp *program* to
| not initiate transfers, I want the uucp *system* to not do transfers.
| As it happens, in this specific case, all the transfers are initiated
| by a mailer; uucp -r won't help.
+---------------

Well, when I had this problem -- wanting mail to go out only at specific
times, when I ran a "polled" UUCP -- I looked to see how the mail got sent,
and observed that "mail somehost!foo" caused mail to execute (on my system):

	/usr/bin/uux -arpw3 - somehost!rmail '(foo)'

Since "uux" also obeys the "-r" flag, the solution is to write a tiny
C program which you install as "/usr/bin/uux", which calls the *real*
"uux" which you have squirreled away somewhere (like /usr/bin/uux.real),
but adds the "-r" option to whatever command string was passed. So the
above command causes the following:

	/usr/bin/uux.real -r -arpw3 - somehost!rmail '(foo)'

Try it; it may work for you too.


Rob Warnock
Systems Architecture Consultant

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