[TUHS] Help request: uucp, mail on 4.2BSD

Cory Smelosky b4 at gewt.net
Tue Mar 7 17:11:16 AEST 2017


I'll need to connect up to this UUCP network eventually...will poke at it tomorrow my time if I get a chance.

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> On Mar 6, 2017, at 23:09, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all, as part of my effort to recreate part of a simulated Usenet,
> I'm trying to bring up uucp, then mail, then C-news on 4.2BSD boxes.
> I've got a hardwired serial port between them, and I can see a basic
> uucp conversation when I do this:
> 
> munnari.oz# /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -sseismo -x7
> uucp seismo (3/6-8:04-132) DEBUG (ENABLED)
>    . . .
> uucp seismo (3/6-8:04-132) SUCCEEDED (call to seismo )
> imsg >\015\012\020<
> Shere\000imsg >\020<
> ROK\000msg-ROK
> Rmtname seismo, Role MASTER,  Ifn - 5, Loginuser - uucp
>    . . .
> 
> I tried e-mail to seismo!wkt and wkt at seismo.UUCP but it's been deferred.
> I now need some help with the sendmail config. I did play around with
> sendmail.cf/mc way back, but it never involved uucp so I'm stuck.
> 
> Anybody want to help (and dust out those cobwebs at the same time)?
> 
> Thanks, Warren 




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