Re: Mail and News with UUCP over TCP/IP
Stefan Walder writes:
>I want to use my Linux-Box at home to get mail and news. I'm using my
>Uni-ISP and i want to have several Email-Adresses (my family). And I
>don't want to use POP, I think uucp is nicer! So I want to use uucp
>over TCP/IP! Now my questions:
Particularly for multiple addresses it has its advantages, yes. I've
some experience of setting it up under SVR4...
It works, though `nice' is not a word I'd use l-)
> 1.) Can I use the email-address Stefan.Walder%home@wtech.....
That's really a question for your ISP; they will need to take some
action to route mail for whatever domain they give you into your UUCP
queue, you can't normally expect to just have things work by choosing
the right address format.
> 2.) What does I need to get and post news? I think I need suck, but is this
> sufficient?
Depends ... there are a variety of programs with names like `slurp'
and `suck' which retrieve news from an NNRP server and (e.g.) inject
it into your own news server. They're quite easy to write. You'll
need NNTP access to feed news that you post back.
I'm assume you'll be running a local copy of INN, though this is not
the only way to do it.
If you want to do the *whole* thing over UUCP that's possible too,
your ISP will set up an outgoing UUCP feed and you must do the same to
feed news back. Last time I tried to do this it was too hard so I
gave up and just fed news back out by NNTP instead - a good thing I've
never had to do it without TCP/IP being available...
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