kent@ssbell.UUCP (Kent Landfield) (04/15/89)
I recently sent a map update to uucpmap@rutgers. The email message contained multiple map entries within a single message. I have recently re-examined the map for my area and find that my updates were not added correctly. I have found that only the first map entry in the update was processed. Is automated software running that is extracting map entries from mail messages to uucpmap? If so, is there a limitation of one entry per mail message? I do not find this limitation stated in the README that is sent with the maps. As written in the README sent with the maps: # PLEASE NOTE - IF YOU HAVEN'T THE TIME OR MANPOWER TO ACQUIRE A DOMAIN # AND CONVERT YOUR SYSTEMS OVER TO USING IT, you are *strongly* # encouraged to publish all the names of those sites in your local area # network which can and do generate email messages or netnews articles. # Publishing the names of all systems not hiding behind a domain is the # only way to ensure that some other site will not register with the # same name that you have chosen and hence will ensure that mail routers # will generate uucp mail paths to your systems properly. From the above, I assumed that multiple entries could be handled. I have always in the past sent the entries one at a time and have never needed to send multiple entries. Hence, I never encountered this problem before. We will be getting a domain (other than UUCP) in a few months. In the meantime I am puting a map entry for machines within my company that have outside connection capabilities. I would like some clarification as to the number of map entries that can be submitted in a single email message. In the interim, I am sending the missed updates to uucpmap@rutgers as individual email messages. I know that I am not the only person that this could happen to. :-( -Kent+ -- Kent Landfield UUCP: kent@ssbell Sterling Software FSG/IMD INTERNET: kent%ssbell.uucp@uunet.uu.net 1404 Ft. Crook Rd. South Phone: (402) 291-8300 Bellevue, NE. 68005-2969 FAX: (402) 291-4362