Re: mail sorting tool

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr>]

On Monday 8 January 2001, at 15 h 45, the keyboard of Toni Mueller 
<deb-l@tonimueller.org> wrote:

> - It's unreliable (yes. I mean it. It eats much support because
>   not all UUCP versions talk to each other, and also this tends to
>   block itself for no good reason and needs manual cleanup - I did
>   news and mail over UUCP for over a year :(  ).

I do it for more than six years. Never *one* manual intervention on the server 
(very good Debian package, BTW).

> - It's unavailable, basically. While anyone with their pretty
>   Linux or BSD box has no problems getting at appropriate UUCP
>   software,

We all have pretty Debian boxes.

> everyone else has to go to their nearest computer
>   museum to find one, as it seems. Also, customers usually can't
>   administrate neither SMTP nor UUCP, but SMTP is easier to
>   set up.

For dial-up usage? No, I disagree.