Subject: Re: uucp stuff...?
To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/14/1997 15:16:44
> Hi there... Once of my near-future goals is to get uucp running on my
> NetBSD/mac68K-equipped SE/30.
>
> I have two questions, at present:
>
> 1) The 06/01/1997 -current snapshot doesn't seem to include a full uucp
> package. Is there a preferred (under NetBSD) uucp package out there, or
> should just about anything work? Is there a uupc available for NetBSD?
I thought NetBSD shipped with the Taylor uucp package? It should be
in there.
> 2) I had to recompile uupc on my Mac so that the initial line of any
> particular outbound message would read something like "From
> user@acheron..." as opposed to "From acheron...!user", since there are
> mailers out there that reject mail whose "From " (no colon) header uses
> bang-path addressing. Is there a way that this can be achieved easily with
> a Unix uucp, in a settings file or something, or should I dig around and
> change the source to get it working? (I realise that this probably is
> dependant on the particular package, but if there's a preferred package for
> NetBSD I'll use it, so answers specific to that package (whatever it is)
> will work nicely.)
I think you want to fight with sendmail's configuration, not uucp per
say. Though how, as usual, is the question with sendmail.
Take care,
Bill