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From: rw@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca (Randy Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: UUCP, SMTP, PPP
References: <76.10.490.0N965E1F@teaminfinity.com>
Message-ID: <9402093034@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca>
Organization: RW development, Surrey BC, Canada
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 94 02:44:13 PST
Lines: 38
aradhika.webber@teaminfinity.com (Sysop) writes:
>
>
> If I have say a box running NetBSD and it is PPPed to an Internet source
> and mail is coming in via SMTP (sendMail right) Can I null modem to
> this same box and UUCP the mail to another box running a DOS UUCP
> package, to and fro ? How do I set this up. (The DOS box already
> UUCPs mail in and out of a DOS BBS) Would NetBSD be able to handle all
> this ?
>
>
> What about KAQ9 ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> sysop@TeamInfinity.com
>
My experience is this:
If ya' really gotta use a dos box, ka9q is probably a better idea
because you could smtp direct to the dos-box over the null modem.
BUT that puts your dos box on the internet through the NetBSD. You
_can_ do the uucp ritual you speak of. If it already exists on the
machines, then there is that much less to configure, However, it
is probably somewhat easier to configure ka9q on the dos box than
to configure uucp on NetBSD.
Best idea is to museum the dos off the dos-box. dos was great in the
times when it cost half a year's pay to get a '286, but it's not well
equipped to be a net host due to zero security (among other things).
If you try out a NetBSD site, you'll very likely chuck out your dos
anyway.
--Randy
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