Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:55:16 -0400 From: Scott Kenney <saken+freebsd-questions@hotel.rmta.org> To: Jacques Marneweck <jacques@web.sciencelink.org.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using UUCP over a PPP session Message-ID: <19990425205516.A26760@hotel.rmta.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990425235604.27157F-100000@web.sciencelink.org.za>; from Jacques Marneweck on Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 11:57:53PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990425235604.27157F-100000@web.sciencelink.org.za>
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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
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