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- Short: SMTP sender for UUCP spool mail jobs -- needs amitcp inet-handler
- Type: comm/net
- Author: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.rhein.de>
- Uploader: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.rhein.de>
-
- This is a REXX program to send away via SMTP mail jobs found in the UUCP
- spool area for a certain mail gateway named on the command line.
-
- It will allow you to use the UUCP spooling mechanism with your Internet
- mail, or send mail away while IP is running, if you operate mixed UUCP
- and IP (as I do).
-
- It was developed and tested by me with OS2.04, later OS3.1, and
- AmiTCP3.0b2; one of my betatesters had AmiTCP 2.x I think, and didn't
- complain.
-
- REQUIREMENTS:
-
- - REXX and rexxsupport.library (don't know whether pre-OS2.04 versions
- will do)
-
- - AmiTCP with inet-handler mounted.
-
- - wUUCP 0.0.29. Older version should do it as well. Don't know about
- older UUCP packages.
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- Edit the file with your favourite text editor:
-
- in the configuration variables section near the top:
-
- - change the host variable in the script to your mail gateway
- - if your modem is faster than 14400 bps, make the bufsize bigger.
- - if your modem is slower than 14400 bps, make the bufsize smaller.
- - if you want lots of debugging output, set debug to 1
-
- save, exit, copy uucp2smtp and the icon to some convenient place.
-
-
- KNOWN PROBLEMS
-
- AmiTCP 3.0b2's inet-handler (or Kernel) has a bug which lets any program
- sending masses of bulk data through it choke once the socket send queue
- gets full. I have throttled this program to 1 kBytes/s (seems usable
- most of the time with 14400 bps modems); you can configure the data rate
- with the bufsize variable near the top of the script.
-
- The AmiTCP-group has promised to work on the problem.
-
-