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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: uupc question
Message-ID: <793@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 14:40:12 EST
Article-I.D.: neoucom.793
Posted: Mon Nov 30 14:40:12 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Dec-87 01:30:42 EST
References: <2061@isis.UUCP>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Summary: check /usr/lib/sendmail.cf on system foo

In article <2061@isis.UUCP>, ross@isis.UUCP (Ross McConnell) writes:
> I have gotten uupc running on my pc, but still have one problem. I am
> trying to send mail to myself on another machine, say "foo". I have
> set MAILSERV=foo on the pc. I send the message with the command
> mail foo!myself < file, and everything gets queued up correctly. When
> I run "uu", the file gets sent to "foo". However, when I log into
> foo, there is no mail. When I examine the LOGFILE on foo, it turns
> out that uucp has requeued the mail, and is now trying to rmail it
> (on foo) to foo!myself. Why doesn't it realize that it has already
> reached foo, and should now just rmail to myself?

It sounds like there is possibly a problem with the definitions
somewhere in foo's /usr/lib/sendmail.cf database.  The syntax of
the .cf file is pretty arcane and it's easy to make a minor goof.
I use precisely the method stated above to send mail from my pc to
my mailbox at neoucom.

Also make sure that you wait long enough for mail to get to your
mailbox.  Depending on the tuning of the mail system it might take
the mail half an hour to make it from the queue to your mailbox.
Between 8:00AM and 5:00PM, half hour delivery times aren't unusual
here at neoucom.  (Of course, neoucom is a *heavily loaded* vax 750
with average load factor around 4-6!)

Try logging into foo and locally mail foo!myself and see if things
blow up.  The mailer should be smart enough to recognize the name
of the machine it is running on.

Hope this is of use,
Bill

(would have emailed, but it bounced.  this is general interest too.)