dan@srs.UUCP (02/06/87)
Good day, gentle people.
Our Sun-3 system is connected only to UUCP, but I'd like to be able
to send mail to Bitnet and Arpanet sites.
I've heard that psuvax1 can be used as a gateway to Bitnet, like so:
...!ihnp4!psuvax1!SITENAME.BITNET!user
and further, that wiscvm.bitnet is willing to gateway to Arpanet:
...!ihnp4!psuvax1!WISCVM.BITNET!sitename.arpa!user
Unfortunately, this is a lot of typing. I'd rather add rules to
/usr/lib/sendmail.cf to allow addresses like user@site.bitnet
and user@site.arpa (or user@site.edu.com and friends).
Again unfortunately, sendmail.cf is impenetrable- I'm not sure I can
afford to invest the week or two needed to understand it, write the
new rules, and debug.
Has anybody gotten this sort of thing to work? If so, could they clue
me in?
Besten Dank,
Dan Kegel (...rochester!srs!dan)rs@mirror.UUCP (02/11/87)
/* Written 11:50 am Feb 6, 1987 by dan@srs.UUCP in mirror:comp.mail.uucp */ >Our Sun-3 system is connected only to UUCP, but I'd like to be able >to send mail to Bitnet and Arpanet sites. >I've heard that psuvax1 can be used as a gateway to Bitnet, like so: > ...!ihnp4!psuvax1!SITENAME.BITNET!user >and further, that wiscvm.bitnet is willing to gateway to Arpanet: > ...!ihnp4!psuvax1!WISCVM.BITNET!sitename.arpa!user >Unfortunately, this is a lot of typing. I'd rather add rules to >/usr/lib/sendmail.cf to allow addresses like user@site.bitnet >and user@site.arpa (or user@site.edu.com and friends). >Besten Dank, > Dan Kegel (...rochester!srs!dan) You are probably better off by using one of the UUCP domain-oriented mailers, and solving the problem in the general case, rather than hacking specific entries into sendmail.cf as the need arises. There are several, all available from your nearest mod.sources archive: smail uumail elm (technically a user agent, but it will route things) the UK sendmail/domain package the GaTech sendmail and UUCP routing package -- Rich $alz "Drug tests p**s me off" Mirror Systems, Cambridge Massachusetts rs@mirror.TMC.COM {adelie, mit-eddie, ihnp4, harvard!wjh12, cca, cbosgd, seismo}!mirror!rs
avolio@decuac.UUCP (02/12/87)
In article <120@srs.UUCP>, dan@srs.UUCP (Dan Kegel) writes: > Good day, gentle people. > > Our Sun-3 system is connected only to UUCP, but I'd like to be able > to send mail to Bitnet and Arpanet sites. > Unfortunately, this is a lot of typing. I'd rather add rules to > /usr/lib/sendmail.cf to allow addresses like user@site.bitnet > and user@site.arpa (or user@site.edu.com and friends). > Again unfortunately, sendmail.cf is impenetrable- I'm not sure I can > afford to invest the week or two needed to understand it, write the > new rules, and debug. The changes to sendmail.cf, which I would make under ruleset 0, is probably not the best orute to go. I'd suggest waiting a little bit for the enxt version of smail to be posted to mod.sources. This -- I am told -- will have an option for sites that do not want/need to keep an entire uucp/domain database around. This would be your best bet, in my opinion. -Fred-