Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!mcnc!idis!pitt!hoffman From: hoffman@pitt.UUCP (Bob Hoffman) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Help needed with uux and uucp through two machines Message-ID: <527@pitt.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 10:21:13 EST Article-I.D.: pitt.527 Posted: Thu Mar 1 10:21:13 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Mar-84 01:03:31 EST References: heurikon.246 Lines: 26 The reason you can send mail to a site by specifying a path with more than one machine in it is because the mail program itself takes care of parsing the multi-machine address. For instance, the command used on your machine to send mail to "macha!machb!foo" would be uux - macha!rmail machb!foo In a more general example, only the first machine name is split off by each machine's mail program in succession and the resultant command is queued up for uux, e.g. your machine: uux - macha!rmail machb!machc!machd!mache!foo on macha: uux - machb!rmail machc!machd!mache!foo on machb: uux - machc!rmail machd!mache!foo ...etc, where the same thing happens on every machine in the path, until you finally get to the destination machine where uuxqt is given the command: on mache: rmail foo In summary, the uucp and uux programs will only accept a single hop per command. Maybe a front end (ruux?) could be built to do roughly the same thing as rmail, only in a more general sense. ---Bob Hoffman, Pitt CS