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- From: thomas@aeon.in-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram)
- Subject: Re: user@host addressing over uucp, HELP!
- Message-ID: <Bx9pAA.zM@aeon.in-berlin.de>
- Organization: Cities in Dust
- References: <1992Oct24.063616.7090@exucom.com> <TODD.92Nov2132741@todd.kastle.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 23:58:58 GMT
- Lines: 58
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- In <TODD.92Nov2132741@todd.kastle.com> todd@kastle.com (Todd A. Scalzott) writes:
- >I am assuming that this is a UUCP connection, which is what it sounds like.
- >By default, the UUCP mailer will re-form all DNS (@-based) addresses to
- >UUCP-style addresses when it gets to your machine. You can attack this at
- >either your machine, or the other one. What I did was added an additional
- >mail and two rulesets for a smart UUCP host that can handle DNS addresses.
-
- >I did this by adding the following mailer spec:
-
- >Msmartuucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=CmsDFMhuU, S=15, R=25, M=100000,
- > A=uux - -r -gC $A!rmail ($u)
-
- >And then followed with rulesets 15 and 25, which call the S= and R= rulesets
- >of my tcp mailer. In my case, those are rules 14 and 24, respectively:
-
- >S15
- >R$+ $@$>14$1 same as tcp mailer
-
- >S25
- >R$+ $@$>24$1 same as tcp mailer
-
- >One other possible hitch: on my system, uux would complain that the resulting
- >DNS address was not uucp-style. So, my ruleset 15 is really as below. What I
- >do is append the UUCP hostname (in $A with DA____). This is okay, because the
- >UUCP host will strip it's host name off the front, leaving the valid DNS spec.
-
- >S15
- >R$+ $:$>14$1 start with same as tcp mailer
- >R$+ $:$A!$1 prefix with "host!"
-
- This was the same for me, but some time ago I read a hint and my smart uucp
- mailer defintion is following:
-
- Msmartuucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=DFMhu, S=28, R=29, M=100000,
- A=uux - -r -gC $h!rmail ($u)
-
- I don't know the meanings of all these 'F'lags, but I'm quite sure that
- the absence of the flag 'U' is the reason why my smart mailer doesn't
- complain about DNS addresses.
-
- regards,
- Thomas
-
- PS:
- Rules S28 S29:
-
- S28
- R$- $@$1<@$j>
-
- S29
- # empty
-
-
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- Thomas Wolfram, European Advanced Networking Test Center
- (Process Computing Center, Technical University of Berlin)
- Strasse des 17.Juni 135, 1000 Berlin 12, Germany
- +49 030 31421294, wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de, thomas@aeon.in-berlin.de
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