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From: mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon)
Subject: Re: mail and uucp help - desperate
Organization: Private FreeBSD site
Message-ID: <DnKvqv.4At@seeware.DIALix.oz.au>
References: <4h1vmg$1o0@comet2.magicnet.net>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 07:35:18 GMT
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Dan Benjamin (dpb@magicnet.net) wrote:

: I am running fbsd 2.1, and trying to get uucp set up.  My isp has a
: uucp login waiting for me.

Don't despair.  This config is very reliable once it is up.

: I have the default installation of uucp, which seems to be Taylor.  I
: configured the files according to Taylor doc.

: My modem is configured already - for dial in and out.

Can you run kermit/minicom/tip or some other serial program??

: Sendmail complains that it can't find deliver, and I have no idea why
: it's not on my system!

At a guess your sendmail config is incorrect (You didn't by chance copy
a linux sendmail.cf did you?).  You need to setup this up by defining
a file sendmail.mc and then 'compiling' it into a sendmail.cf file.
(For more info see the source code for sendmail)

My sendmail.mc looks like this:-

include(`../m4/cf.m4')
VERSIONID(`@(#)uucpproto.mc	8.3 (Berkeley) 8/21/93')
OSTYPE(bsd4.4)dnl

MASQUERADE_AS(seeware.DIALix.oz.au)dnl   <-- This sets your domain name for
					     outgoing mail

FEATURE(nodns)dnl
FEATURE(notsticky)dnl	

MAILER(local)dnl			<-- These next lines define what
MAILER(smtp)dnl 			    mailers you will install on your
MAILER(uucp)dnl				    system, uucp is the one which will
MAILER(usenet)dnl			    do uucp (you need local & smtp as well)

define(`SMART_HOST', uucp-dom:melbourne)	<-- This line says that any non-local
						    mail will be sent to the smart
						    UUCP host 'melbourne'.  It also
						    says that that particular host
						    understands name@site style 
						    addressing (and not just the
						    old !path style.)


: I can't seem to get uucp to dial out at all.  I'm lost, confused, and
: in need of any help at all.

What do you mean by this?  Have you tried to manually tickle this by
	/usr/libexec/uucp/uucico -s name_of_your_uucp_host


: Thanks in advance,

No worries, mail me if you need more help.

: Dan
: dpb@magicnet.net


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