On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, John wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 08:03:57AM -0600, Jeff Hahn wrote:
>
> as I understand it, uucp is designed for use over serial lines, which is
> fine for away from home but does it work over plain ethernet (actually,
> would i just plug in the pcmcia nic then exim would disgorge the mail
> now that it is configured to relay to internal IP)
>
UUCP over TCP/IP substitutes net for the phone line. The laptop would
"call" the server to pick up or send mail. A script something like:
1. Am I connect on the network?
2. if so, uucico -s server
running as a cron job every few minutes on the laptop
-Jeff
