bruce@watnxt2.ucr.edu (Ahmon Dancy) (03/14/91)
I am having trouble mailing UUCP sites from my host machine. I am using a Unix BSD 4.3 on a NeXT. I'm not sure what other information to provide. Any help is appreciated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bruce! (Ahmon Dancy) Email address: bruce@watnxt2 | mail me! Soon to be attending UC Berkeley | EECS major ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
schnoebe@convex.com (Eric Schnoebelen) (03/23/91)
Tim Endres (time@ice.com) writes: -In article <12752@ucrmath.ucr.edu>, bruce@watnxt2.ucr.edu (Ahmon Dancy) writes: -> I am having trouble mailing UUCP sites from my host machine. I am using a -> Unix BSD 4.3 on a NeXT. I'm not sure what other information to provide. -> Any help is appreciated. - -NeXT Machines have what I consider to be an *enormous* bug in their -mailer. The outgoing lines from the uucico that I connected with used -CR/NL to terminate lines instead of the UNIX traditional NL. I have tracked this problem down before, and it is caused by the default sendmail configuration on the NeXT machines. They default to being properly internet aware, (which requires CR/NL terminated lines) but they also use it on the UUCP rules. If memory serves, there is a variable in each mailer rule that specifies the line termination. This variable is 'E=' and should be set to 'E=\n' for the uucp mailer rule, and 'E=\r\n' on the internet mailer rule. Fix these mailer rules (talk to a sendmail guru for more information, I'm certainly not one) and the problem described by Tim disappears. -- Eric Schnoebelen eric@cirr.com schnoebe@convex.com Arthur C. Clarke's Law : It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.