Re: Best mode for uucp over tcp.
>I have one site that insists on using sendmail. This site was using me as
>a smarthost for outbound mail. I instructed him to use the uucp-dom mailer
>so I assume he was. Nevertheless, about 10% of his mail to remote sites
>was bouncing. I suspect that it was because sendmail was sticking .UUCP
>after my relay hostname. In otherwords, sendmail will say that the mail
>went to uucpnodename.UUCP and some mailers HATE that. Also since sendmail
We've never had this problem. As far as the outside world can see there
are no bang paths. Everything users the format user@host.domain for all mail.
>queues the message up with uux using rmail, the return path ends up with
>!paths in it. Sendmail DOES NOT support batched smtp over uucp, it only
>supports smtp ADDRESSING over uucp ... BIG DIFFERENCE. All uucp-dom does
>is keep the addresses in internet format.
I must admit some ignorance here... what is batched smtp over uucp? And
why would you want it over normal uucp?
>sendmail needs something like smail's rsmtp but it does not have it.
>Again, if you use a sendmail site as your smarthost with UUCP you WILL
>have trouble eventually with mysterious bounces. Other sites had not
>noticed it but this one site was an anonymous remailer that sent mail all
>over the world.
Hmmm, that's interesting because we've been running UUCP through sendmail
for over two years and never ran into problems. The only errors we get are
when people try and send one of our customers mail using bang paths...
which doesn't work. None of them are big sites but I would have expected
problems by now... do you know a site that is fussy that I could test it on?
Adam.
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