Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 07:53:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Glen Foster <gfoster@gfoster.com> To: taob@io.org Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need tips and tricks for UUCP mail and news Message-ID: <199604221153.HAA00313@ptavv.nsta.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960421231513.3126F-100000@zap.io.org> (message from Brian Tao on Sun, 21 Apr 1996 23:21:37 -0400 (EDT))
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There is an o'Reilly book on UUCP and usenet that is about the best I've seen on the subject. It does not discuss Taylor UUCP specifically but it does show how UUCP works and what you need to configure to get it talking. This book, and the on-line info documentation for Taylor UUCP (type "info uucp" at a shell prompt), should be all you need to get UUCP up and running. Integration of SMTP mail and UUCP mail is not covered in this book, you pretty much have to dig into the sendmail docs. and config. files to achieve that. Integration of terminal servers is also not addressed, this is easy for incoming connections but can be hard for outgoing. The book is "Managing UUCP and Usenet" by Tim O'Reilly and Grace Todino, published by O'Reilly and Associates, Inc. ISBN: 0-937175-93-5. It is not particularly well written and, to my mind, poorly organized, but it is the best I've seen available (practically the only). I am not in any way associated with the authors or publisher (http://www.ora.com/) except as a satisfied customer. This is at least the third time this subject has appeared in the FreeBSD discussion groups recently. More and more ISP's appear to be using UUCP for "final mile" delivery of e-mail to small and medium-sized businesses, especially those that are concerned about the security implications of having a direct IP connection to the net. It is admirably suited to that purpose, one of the biggest shortcomings of SMTP is that there is little provision for polling (yes, I know about the SMTP "TURN" command). UUCP does polling very well. Has anybody experimented with making "sendmail -q -Rdomain.of.interest -v" a login shell to handle IP customers who prefer to poll for their mail? Glen Foster <gfoster@gfoster.com> > Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 23:21:37 -0400 (EDT) > From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> > > Are there any FAQ's or guides on setting up a UUCP mail and news > server under FreeBSD? I have almost no clue about how UUCP works (I > figure everyone should be able to use SMTP or NNTP by now) with > regards to spooling messages for later delivery or how it interacts > with the mail and news server to send/receieve messages. > > The machine is running FreeBSD 2.1.0R, sendmail and INN. The > client who wants the UUCP machine will have his clients dialup over > 28.8k modems. He doesn't know whether they will be dialing straight > into a UUCP login, or connecting via PPP. He also doesn't know what > software will be running on the remote side. He just wants "UUCP to > work". Compressed UUCP over TCP? Is the UUCP that comes with > FreeBSD good enough to do this? > > Any tips or pointers to documentation or sample configuration > files will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. > -- > Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org) > Systems and Network Administrator, Internex Online Inc. > "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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