From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 25 17:55:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nwhn-sh4-port197.snet.net (nwhn-sh4-port197.snet.net [204.60.14.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C81AB14D12 for ; Sun, 25 Apr 1999 17:55:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from saken+freebsd-questions@hotel.rmta.org) Received: (qmail 45392 invoked by uid 1001); 26 Apr 1999 00:55:16 -0000 Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:55:16 -0400 From: Scott Kenney To: Jacques Marneweck Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using UUCP over a PPP session Message-ID: <19990425205516.A26760@hotel.rmta.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Jacques Marneweck on Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 11:57:53PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 11:57:53PM +0200, Jacques Marneweck wrote: > How does one go about collecting UUCP mail over a uucp connection? > > eg. I want to collect mail from a boxie my.isp.co.za when I'm online using > PPP. > > How does one go about it. first question is does my.isp.co.za run a uucpd daemon: try telnet my.isp.co.za uucp If they aren't running a uucpd daemon you're out of luck. If they are make sure you have the following in your /etc/uucp/port file port inet type tcp and in your /etc/uucp/sys file replace the port port1 (or whatever you have) with port inet. You may have to tweak your login scripts. > All my attempts at getting this to work with UUCP (Taylor UUCP) from my > unix server does not work. -- Scott Kenney >|< saken@hotel.rmta.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message