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- This is an updated version of uumail (and uupath) that can
- access a pathalias-generated database to facilitate routine mail.
-
- These program can cope with DBM and standard line-oriented forms of
- pathalias-generated databases.
-
- This version of uumail can be used as uupath by linking uumail to
- uupath. Also, this version can handle domain addresses (user@host.domain).
- You can put as many addresses on a line as you like.
-
- This version fixes a few bugs in the previous release. Some additional
- functionality and robustness are added as well. The bugs included
- lack of initilization of some variables in address.c, inconsistant calling
- of getpath in uumail, address and opath, and failure to handle % in addresses
- correctly. Additional features include the ability of getpath to detect when
- the database is being updated and wait or abort as necessary, the ability to
- retry accessing the database when it will not open (as might be the case when
- updating it), the ability (if the database is sorted) to search a plain-text
- database much faster.
-
- * IF YOU ARE USING A DBM DATABASE, READ THIS!
- * If the special sentinel value of @@@ is not present in the
- * database, then getpath will assumed that the database is being
- * rebuilt and will block for TIMEOUT (default = 180) seconds.
- * If, after 5 such blocks, the sentinel is not present,
- * the error code EX_TEMPFAIL is returned.
- * The same is true if the dbm files cannot be initialized.
- * Please be sure to add the sentinal to the DBM database when
- * it is created.
- *
-
- There are some compile flags to be aware of when making uumail.
- Here is a list of them.
-
- DEBUG compiles in the debugging code.
- OPATH causes the opath subroutine to be used to resolve addresses.
- If you do not use this flag, you cannot use the user@host.domain style
- addresses with uumail.
- DBM causes uumail to use the DBM format patalias database. If you do not
- have the dbm libraries, do not use this flag.
- SYSIII will make adjustments for system that are derived from UNIX System
- III or System V.
- NOGRADE should be used if your uux does not understand the -g flag.
- NORETURN should be used if your uux does not understand the -a flag.
- LOG will enable logging of uumail traffic.
- UGLYUUCP causes the From_ line produced by uumail to contain the
- "remote from hostname" string.
- GETHOSTNAME will cause the system call gethostname to be used. If you
- are a BSD site, define this.
- SYSTEMNAME will cause the systemname to be derived from the file
- /usr/lib/uucp/SYSTEMNAME. This should be defined if your machine
- is a Sperry 5000.
- SORTED will cause the non-DBM database to be searched fasted, BUT
- it assumes that this database is SORTED. If you do not sort your
- database, do not define this.
-
- If you want to install this system, use "make install". If you want
- to have it do all the work for incoming mail, type "make mailer". You
- probably do not want to "make mailer" if you run sendmail.
-
- Here is the mailer segment of a sendmail configuration file that you
- can use to define the uumail program as a mailer.
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
- ############################################################
- #### This is a special mailer that takes advantage of ###
- #### usemap database for addresses to UUCP sites ###
- ############################################################
-
- Muumail, P=/usr/lib/uucp/uumail,F=sDFhuUM,S=13,R=23,M=1000000,
- A=uumail -h -gC -f$g $h!$u
- --------------------------------------------------------------
- Please be sure that the S= and R= rules are correct for your
- system. They should match the uucp mailer rules exactly.
-
- A manual page for address, opath, uumail and uupath are included.
-
- Please forward comments and bug fixes to me at sob@rice.edu or
- ihnp4!shell!neuro1!sob or texsun!drilltech!sob
-
- Stan Barber
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Houston, Texas
-
- P.S. My thanks to all those who reported bugs from the previous release.
- Please continue to send them in, and I will try to keep fixing them.
-