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- From: ccfj@hippo.ru.ac.za (F. Jacot Guillarmod)
- Subject: Help! Newbie questions about mail on Ultrix in Mozambique.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.192327.14970@hippo.ru.ac.za>
- Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 19:23:27 GMT
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- I've been volunteered to set up a uucp dialup node on an Ultrix system
- at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique at the end of this
- month or early September. I've never set eyes on a (modern) Vax, let
- alone Ultrix, but have experience with SunOS and SCO Xenix, so I'd like
- to get a few reassuring words before setting out.
-
- My intention is to set up normal point to point uucp dialup to link the
- university in Maputo with one of our dialup systems (a Sun ELC) here at
- Rhodes University, and to install smail-3.1.26 as the "smart" mail
- transport with elm and pine as the user interfaces. Are there any
- tricks or subtleties with getting these packages working under Ultrix?
- Should I be looking at a different approach? What's the Ultrix
- documentation like? Does Ultrix support the 'compress' and
- 'uncompress' utilities? (I've been caught flat footed once before with
- an NCR :-() Anybody got an Ultrix kermit excutable they'd allow me to
- FTP from their site? And, once the email link is working, the guys up
- there will be pretty much on their own as regards Ultrix support - are
- there any (low volume) mailing lists they should keep an eye on?
- Usenet news isn't really an option for them at this stage, unless I
- install something like the recently posted 'bsnews' (boot strap news)
- for a tiny feed.
-
- The email addressing structure will be something like
- "user@dzowo.uem.mz" - where 'dzowo' is the node name of the relevant
- Ultrix system, 'uem' stands for Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, and 'mz'
- is the ISO-3166 abbreviation for Mozambique. I'm busy organizing name
- servers, setting up MX forwarders (kudu.ru.ac.za) and getting the MZ
- domain registered with the NIC, so as to bypass any uucp bangpath
- stupidity or uucp map craziness.
-
- There are apparently Vax systems running VMS on other parts of the
- campus - is there some way of transferring mail between these systems
- using something like uucp? i.e. is there a VMS uucp package? Is it
- domain smart? Does it work?
-
- Thanks for any help - it's in a good cause...
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