wrl@wdl51.wdl.loral.com (Bill Lewandowski) (05/31/91)
Hi, I have been having trouble with "uumail" to resolve paths like "mips!ames!user". uumail looks up the complete path in the "pathalias" database instead of just looking up "mips" (uucp neighbor). This happens on all mail going out that specifies a whole path instead of "ames!user". Can anyone help me out ???? uumail works great except for this error. I'm using uumail 4.2, Patchlevel 1 at this time. Also, I have been looking at using "smail" instead oof "uumail" for my uucp mail. I want to still use sendmail as the smtp agent but I have not been able to figure out how to configure smail to act as the uucp agent. If would handle the complete uucp-path problems I'm having, that would be great. Thanks, Bill Lewandowski ========================================================== -- Bill Lewandowski LORAL Western Development Labs (408) 473-4362 Internet: wrl@wdl1.wdl.loral.com FAX: (408) 473-4093 UUCP: wdl1!wrl
ken@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Ken Sallenger) (06/04/91)
In <1991May31.151208.29782@wdl1.wdl.loral.com> wrl@wdl51.wdl.loral.com (Bill Lewandowski) writes: >I have been having trouble with "uumail" to resolve >paths like "mips!ames!user". uumail looks up the >complete path in the "pathalias" database instead >of just looking up "mips" (uucp neighbor). >This happens on all mail going out that specifies a >whole path instead of "ames!user". Right. Of course, the whole point of uumail is to avoid _having_ to use the whole path. However, users will inevitably have mail aliases already set up, etc... But when they find out about UUMAIL, they are only too happy to revert to the simpler method. You can also teach them about UUPATH, so that they can sanity-check the results. We're using the Colorado sendmail config files, which have one mailer specified for UUCP to known neighbors, and another which calls UUMAIL. A "system!user" path is handled by: Canonicalize (in ruleset 3) to user<@system.UUCP> Check (in ruleset 0) whether "system" is a UUCP neighbor. If so, pass to the "uucp" mailer (calls UUX, old-style). If not, pass to the "palias" mailer, which calls UUMAIL. In the case of "system-A!system-B!user" (presumably the complete path) or any longer path it's: Canonicalize to system-B!user<@system-A.UUCP>. Perform the same check on system-A, presumably a UUCP neighbor. It then resolves to the "uucp" mailer with "system-B!user" as the user (for the RMAIL command on the other end). so UUMAIL never gets it. I've done some local hacking to allow our UUCP system to gateway to domain-based mail for our UUCP neighbors. Original and hacked versions can be made available for FTP [the compressed tar file is 112355 bytes], _but_ there's probably a newer and better version out there somewhere. Does anyone know where it may be? I hope to know more after Summer Usenix. ;-) -- Ken Sallenger / ken@bigbird.csd.scarolina.edu / +1 803 777-6551 Computer Services Division / 1244 Blossom ST / Columbia, SC 29208