On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, John Goerzen wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, SMTP format is not compatible with UUCP. (I would, of course,
> > > allow exim to receive SMTP messages from local mail programs that use SMTP,
> > > such as Netscape. But UUCP is used for the actual connection to Internet.)
> >
> > Wrong. Read RFC 976 in regards to UUCP mail format. Basically, a
> > SMTP session is batched and sent over UUCP, to be piped into the remote
> > mailer. Batched-SMTP is not used very commonly as a UUCP mail format,
> > but it is probably superior to the /bin/rmail method.
>
> That RFC states ``Standard conforming implementations may optionally support a
> protocol called "Batch SMTP"''. If my ISP does not support it (and I doubt
> they do, but I can check) it is of no use to me, unfortunately...and thus
> incompatible with a standard UUCP setup unless special provisions have been
> made to allow it.
That isn't really my point. You said "can't used batched-SMTP, because
I use UUCP". That is wrong, because batched-SMTP is used over UUCP.
Your provider uses Sendmail 8.8.4 (according to the MX for you domain)
which would be a bit of pain to use with batched-SMTP.
> > > This is the end of Exim's responsibility. The UUCP software takes care of
> > > delivering the mail to the remote site ("host" in the above example) and the
> > > remote site will take care of sending the mail.
> >
> > Wrong. exim also needs to be called from /bin/rmail to handle the
> > incoming e-mail.
>
> Yes, I realize that. I should have been more explicit. I meant it was the
> end of Exim's special responsibility when sending UUCP mail. Incoming UUCP
> mail is handled by existing mechanisms, as far as Exim is concerned. (nothing
> special need be done to Exim to handle it)
What about multiple "From_" lines? Such things are basically only seen
on UUCP mail. Does Exim check for such things? I don't know...
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Tom
