[comp.mail.sendmail] Help in xfering mail between SunOS and CTIX

bmw@isgtec.UUCP (Bruce Walker) (07/07/89)

I have two "universes" that I am trying to connect mail between,
SunOS 4 and CTIX 5.25 (Convergent Technologies SysVR3).

The universes are connected via ether, with the minimal ftp-style
suite: ftp, rcp, rsh, etc.

But how do I get mail between them?

o  SunOS has sendmail (with SMTP over TCP), CTIX does not.
o  CTIX has uucpd (uucp over TCP), SunOS does not.

As I see it, I can either get sendmail source and munge it to
run under SysV (gack!) or, write an SMTP daemon for SysV, or
else get (somehow) a uucpd daemon for SunOS.

Before I go off the deep-end, any suggestions? sources? sympathy?

Thanks!

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cyliax@inf.ethz.ch (Ingo Cyliax) (07/13/89)

You could create a special process for the SysV box, that would open
a pseudo tty for uucp to connect to and establish an rlogin or telnet
connect on the sun. In this fashion, the uucp stuff should still work
normally, but actually run over the net.

	SysV.3					Sun

	uucico
	  |
	ttp?                                  uucico
	  |                                      |
	ttm?				      (login)
	  |                                      |
	telnetprocess	-------------->       telnetd

We thought about doing this and almost had it working, but ended up
getting V8 uucp on the Sun's V8 uucp can talk over the ethernet with
uucpd.


-ingo
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