> > uux host!rmail address1 address2 address3 ... addressn
>
> Ah! Simple as that, is it? Incidentally, where does the sender's address
> go? Is it in a From_ line?
Hmm, AFAIK, UUCP does not care about the sender's address. When mail arrives
at "host" (which is whatever the UUCP host is named), it is generally sent to
the MTA (sendmail, Exim, qmail, whatever..) and treated like a normal piece of
mail. So when my system sends UUCP mail to my ISP, the mail is just fed to
Sendmail and I guess all the info Sendmail needs it gets from the headers. I
think... :-)
A piece of UUCP mail has all the normal headers you'd find anywhere else --
To, From, Subject, and a From_ line as well. So whatever MTA or MUA needs the
info, it can get it from there. UUCP itself doesn't need the info (at least
with mail). UUCP is just a "transport" protocol -- gets stuff from one
computer to another. Doesn't really care about what's in it -- as long as
both computers know what's going on, all is well :-)
> Most of the apparatus to do this exists in Exim for handling batch SMTP.
> Some relatively small modifications could be made to add options to the
> pipe transport to get it to this, I think. I've put the idea on my list
> to think about when I get to it.
Cool! Thanks.
In the mean time, I will still be using sendmail, but if you could kinda put
my e-mail address next to the idea and let me know when this is implemented,
I'll switch my system right over to Exim :-) It looks like a really nice
system and I'd be using it already if it weren't for this one thing...
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John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org)
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