dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (01/11/90)
The Distribution is ready and will be on ucbvax.berkeley.edu in pub/amiga/uucp1.00D.zoo tonight. Once a few more people test it via the ucbvax and I talk with WPL more it will be posted to the USENET. The Distribution contains William P. Loftus's 0.60 News software and was originally based on WPL's 0.40 release. BUT, HOLD THE PHONE! 0.40? I've made billions and billions of bug fixes and enhancements, include many sorely needed additions and, I believe, the distribution as it stands now surpasses WPL's 0.60 distribution. (NOTE that I am including WPLs 0.60 News software in this release which was the only thing I hadn't worked on). This isn't, of course, putting down Will, this distribution would not have been possible without the 0.40 and subsequent releases. We will hopefully be merging the two distributions at some point soon. Apart from the little bug fixes I've done the following: (1) Getty based UUCico. You run Getty in your startup sequence and it sits on the serial port waiting for connections and deals with login and password. A user/password file specifies an executable to run (so you can run things other than uucico for different login names). This allows you to use your Amiga almost completely normally while still retaining the ability to accept UUCP calls at any time. (2) Sendmail... A real Sendmail (or as real as you can get with a microcomputer) that deals with queuing mail and also replaces rmail (receiving mail). Sendmail has aliases capabilities on par with /usr/lib/aliases and a simple Domain routing capability (redirect mail for domain blah to fubar, etc... including default route). Sendmail also deals with 'From ' and '>From ' lines properly and builds proper headers and 'Received:' lines as mail gets routed. (Sendmail does not bounce mail yet but the hooks are there). (3) DMail.. a mail shell I wrote in 1985 for UNIX systems has been ported. (4) Documentation. More explicit setup documentation though still, as usual, a far cry from what it could be. -Matt