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From: mcw@aus.hp.com (M.C Wong)
Subject: [1.1.5.1] UUCP & sendmail setup
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 Hi,
   I have finally got my UUCP setup with my ISP, and here are some of the
 background info of my machine etc. I will use some make-up names below.
 I am running FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 and Taylor's UUCP 1.05.

(Note : Yes, I have read Taylor's UUCP 1.05 doc, Sendmail Installation and
        Operation Guide [SMM:08] and /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/README,
        etc except O'Reilly book as I haven't got it, and I will appreciate
        if you can put up with my long message, as I have tried my best in
        learning and understanding all the stuff I read before decided to
        send this email, and of course many many experiments. 8) )
 
   system on local network   : freebsd.mydomain
   system UUCP name required : freebsd.servdomain
   ISP name		    : isp.servdomain
 
   I have successfully uucp files across to isp.servdomain and also I have been
 able to receive mail send to, say root@freebsd.servdomain, from other host.
 And uucico session is able to retrieve those mail and put them on 
 freebsd.mydomain:/var/spool/mqueue. However, I think my sendmail.cf has not
 been set up correctly to deliver mail to local receipients properly. That is,
 when I did mailq, I got :
 
 
                 Mail Queue (1 request)
 --Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------
 MAA17341       62 Sun Dec 11 12:36 wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au
                  (Deferred: Name server: freebsd.servdomain: host name look)
                                    root@freebsd.servdomain
                                    wongm@freebsd.servdomain
                                    guest@freebsd.servdomain
 
   This was of course early experiment using default freefall.mc generated
 sendmail.cf which wasn't set up to use UUCP mailer. So I tried the following :
 
 include(`../m4/cf.m4')
 VERSIONID(`@(#)mcw-freebsd.mc      $Revision: 1.1 $') 
 OSTYPE(bsd4.4)dnl 
 FEATURE(nodns)dnl
 MAILER(local)dnl
 MAILER(uucp)dnl
 MAILER(smtp)dnl
 MAILER(usenet)dnl
 define(`UUCP_RELAY', isp.servdomain)dnl
 define(`confCHECKPOINT_INTERVAL', 4)dnl
 define(`confAUTO_REBUILD', True)dnl
 
   build sendmail.cf using m4, ie :
 
 m4 < mcw-freebsd.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf
 kill sendmail and restart. This time when I did mailq I got :

                Mail Queue (1 request)
--Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------
MAA17478     1507 Sun Dec 11 12:50 MAILER-DAEMON
                 (Deferred: No route to host)
                                   wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au

and the qfMAA17478 is :

P3540162
T787110618
DdfMAA17478
MDeferred: No route to host
Fr
$rinternal
$slocalhost
$_localhost
SMAILER-DAEMON
Rwongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au
H?P?Return-Path: MAILER-DAEMON
HReceived: from localhost (localhost) by freebsd.mydomain (8.6.8/8.6.6) with in
ternal id MAA17478; Sun, 11 Dec 1994 12:50:18 +1100
H?D?Date: Sun, 11 Dec 1994 12:50:18 +1100
H?F?From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>
H?x?Full-Name: Mail Delivery Subsystem
HSubject: Returned mail: Host unknown
H?M?Message-Id: <199412110150.MAA17478@freebsd.mydomain>
HTo: wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au
HMIME-Version: 1.0
HContent-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="MAA17478.787110618/freebsd.mydomain"

 Note that I used to have a SLIP connection with latcs1.lat.oz.au (my Uni).
and I still have an entry in /etc/hosts/, and that's whay it's complaining.

  On the other hand, the other mail messages that get sent from a different
host generated the following error message which gets sent to postmaster (root):

Message 3/18  From Mail Delivery Subsystem          Dec 11, 94 11:14:08 pm +1100


Date: Sun, 11 Dec 1994 23:14:08 +1100
Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
To: postmaster

This is a MIME-encapsulated message

--XAA00361.787148048/freebsd.mydomain

The original message was received at Sun, 11 Dec 1994 23:14:07 +1100
from localhost

   ----- The following addresses had delivery problems -----
mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com  (unrecoverable error)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com... Host unknown

   ----- Original message follows -----

--XAA00361.787148048/freebsd.mydomain
Content-Type: message/rfc822

Return-Path: MAILER-DAEMON
Received: from localhost (localhost) by freebsd.mydomain (8.6.8/8.6.6) with int
ernal id XAA00359; Sun, 11 Dec 1994 23:14:07 +1100
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 1994 23:14:07 +1100
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>
Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
Message-Id: <199412111214.XAA00359@freebsd.mydomain>
To: mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="XAA00359.787148047/freebsd.mydomain"

This is a MIME-encapsulated message

--XAA00359.787148047/freebsd.mydomain

The original message was received at Sun, 11 Dec 1994 23:14:07 +1100
from root@localhost

   ----- The following addresses had delivery problems -----
root@freebsd.servdomain  (unrecoverable error)
wongm@freebsd.servdomain  (unrecoverable error)
guest@freebsd.servdomain  (unrecoverable error)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 root@freebsd.servdomain,wongm@freebsd.servdomain,guest@freebsd.servdomain... Host unknown

   ----- Original message follows -----

[... deleted]

   As described above, freebsd.mydomain = freebsd.servdomain, except that
the later is used for UUCP linke purpose.

  Also in my /etc/sendmail I added a line :

DUfreebsd.servdomain

   Note that, freebsd.mydomain is going to be the dedicated UUCP host, and 
 is expected to be used for relaying emails from all other machines on the same
 net out to isp.servdomain, so does the above UUCP_RELAY set correctly ? Or
 should it be set to freebsd.mydomain ?
 
   Also, do I need to make any changes to /etc/hosts to define freebsd.servdomain
 ?  What should I do to get sendmail on freebsd.mydomain to process the queued
message in /var/spool/mqueue and send it to correct receipients even though
the message are detined for receipient@freebsd.servdomain ? 

     Also, how can I configure my mailer (elm) to be able to :

1) send mail to receipient@freebsd,servdomain 
2) reply to mails sent from other hosts to freebsd.servdomain and get 
   transfered to freebsd.mydomain ?
3) send mail to other outside hosts receipients using UUCP as default if the
   hostname is not recognized or found in /etc/hosts ? What happen if I add
   IP (SLIP/PPP) connection later, can I configure sendmail to try SMTP mailer
   for some hosts, and others with UUCP mailer ? How to specify default ?
4) I want one of my machine with direct UUCP link to use existing domain name
   with other boxes on same LAN, while recognizing the ISP UUCP link domain
   as well, so that it can serves as a UUCP gateway for relaying all non-local
   mail traffics to my ISP for further delivery.

  I know this is long, and I appreciate your patience, and please email your
replies.

--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 M.C Wong 				   Email: mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com 
 Australian Telecom Operation              Voice: +61 3 272 8058        
 Hewlett-Packard Australia Ltd             Fax:   +61 3 898 9257        
 31 Joseph St, Blackburn 3130, Australia   OS: FreeBSD-1.1.5.1
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