jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher) (02/23/90)
I just started running smail and I was wondering about a few things.
root keeps getting messages from adm about smail. They are normally
empty. How can I stop these? The next one may become a problem.
smail seems to put my address as "jessea@dynasys.UUCP". There are a
lot of mailers that are either not set up to handle internet
addressing or don't have the capability. Is there any way I can have
give uucp addressing? Ex: dynasys!jessea or even the full path
name? Thanx in advance.
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Jesse W. Asher - Dynasys - (901)382-1705
6196-1 Macon Rd., Suite 200, Memphis, TN 38134
UUCP: {uunet,fedeva,rayo}!dynasys!jesseakabra437@pallas.athenanet.com (Ken Abrams) (02/25/90)
In article <58@dynasys.UUCP> jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher) writes: >I just started running smail and I was wondering about a few things. >root keeps getting messages from adm about smail. They are normally >empty. How can I stop these? The next one may become a problem. >smail seems to put my address as "jessea@dynasys.UUCP". There are a >lot of mailers that are either not set up to handle internet >addressing or don't have the capability. Is there any way I can have >give uucp addressing? Ex: dynasys!jessea or even the full path >name? Thanx in advance. > I have been dropping a few posts here and there trying to get a definitive answer to this and other related "net" addressing problems for the last month or so. Guess I have been leaving them in the wrong areas because I haven't gotten any good information yet. My SYSADM has managed to fix smail so that it puts a proper return address in our mail messages (sorry, I don't know exactly what he did). As you can see by the header of this message, we have not been able to apply a similar fix to rn as it still shows our addresses in the xxx@yyy.UUCP format. I suspect that this is a BIG problem for lots of folks on the net since it also causes me trouble in sending mail replies to addresses in this format (they don't make it out of my machine). If a poster doesn't leave a full path address, it is sometimes impossible to reply via mail. I would like to see a periodic (monthly) post similar to those in newuser explaining this address mess but so far haven't been able to locate anyone able (or willing) to do it. -- ======================================================== Ken Abrams uunet!pallas!kabra437 Illinois Bell kabra437@athenanet.com Springfield (voice) 217-753-7965
gary@dgcad.SV.DG.COM (Gary Bridgewater) (02/27/90)
In article <298@pallas.athenanet.com> kabra437@pallas.UUCP (Ken Abrams) writes: >In article <58@dynasys.UUCP> jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher) writes: >>.... Is there any way I can have [rn] >>give uucp addressing? Ex: dynasys!jessea or even the full path >>name? Thanx in advance. > ... >I would like to see a periodic (monthly) post similar to those in newuser >explaining this address mess but so far haven't been able to locate >anyone able (or willing) to do it. To fix reply addresses you must grep the news sources and find the hard coded occurance of the .UUCP. You must then stare at the code for a good long while and then carefully edit it to hard code in something else. See what happens, re-edit, loop until correct or acceptable. I have seen posting that explain this and even show the code. However, doing it this way gives one a sense of accomplishment and teaches a method for problem solving. Being a news admin, I have found, is very much an "Aha!" experience. I have had the usual news admin training (previous news admin wisked off to Oz by tornado, etc. with no notice) and my news stopped being there. So I jumped in and started breaking it in BIG ways. Eventually, a few batches stayed around long enough to get refused due to broken active file and another Star* was born. :-} Anyway - monthly postings of commmon news problems may not be all that useful since the audience for them either 1) doesn't know they are in the audience yet or 2) already knows enough to fix it anyway. As a B news admin and as a watcher of C News' birth it occurs to me that every single system running news is unique, to a greater or lesser degree, and will need specific care and feeding (oops) to function. So, you have to hack something and you might as well learn to do it on a small scale. Getting .UUCP fixed is a good start. None of this applies to backbones and/or other heavily manned sites. I speak to the sites with 1-100 users and a news admin whose Real Job is something other than administering that goofy system in the corner. I could be wrong. (* Capricorn - the Goat) -- Gary Bridgewater, Data General Corporation, Sunnyvale California gary@sv.dg.com or {amdahl,aeras,amdcad}!dgcad!gary The impossible we understand right away - the obvious takes a little longer.