Re: exim and uucp

[fpage@ntrulez.oche.de (Frederick Page)]

Hi Carey,

you wrote on: 03 Feb 99 at 23:51 (received 03.02.99)
about       : _Re: exim: I get mail but cannot send_

>>My responses are located with cryptic names in /var/spool/exim/input,
>>obviously ready to be delivered but don't seem to get transmitted to my
>>uucp provider.

>/var/log/exim/* should have info about why your mail is just sitting
>there.  See what sort of messages you've got.

Thank you very much for this valuable information. I got through the docs  
a bit more and realized, I had been sending the mail to smarthost (instead  
of uucp).

Now I pretty much left the /etc/exim.conf on it's defaults and added the  
following lines first (before local_delivery):

#                      TRANSPORTS CONFIGURATION                      #
#                       ORDER DOES NOT MATTER                        #

uucp:
  driver = pipe
  user = nobody
  command = "/usr/local/bin/uux -r - \
            ${substr_-5:$host}!rmail ${local_part}"
  return_fail_output = true



I have to admit, I don't have the faintest idea, what I wrote here, I just  
took this example from the docs, as it stated, that this was a valid uucp- 
configuration taken out of an actual running system.

I did not change the "directors configuration" but added those lines:

#                      ROUTERS CONFIGURATION                         #
#            Specifies how remote addresses are handled              #
#                          ORDER DOES MATTER                         #

uucphost:
  driver = domainlist
  transport = uucp
  route_list = "* downtown"

uucp:
  driver = domainlist
  transport = uucp
  route_list = "* downtown"


(I left the following lines as they were)

smarthost:
  driver = domainlist
  transport = remote_smtp
  route_list = "* downtown bydns_a"

end


Now exim really can "deliver" mails, but the following errors are in the  
mainlog:


1999-02-03 22:47:33 107qNu-000031-00 Unfrozen by forced delivery

1999-02-03 22:47:33 107qNu-000031-00 ** fpage@euromail.com R=uucphost  
T=uucp: Child process of uucp transport returned 69 from command: /usr/ 
local/bin/uux

1999-02-03 22:47:33 108A8z-000078-00 <= <> R=107qNu-000031-00 U=mail  
P=local S=1319

1999-02-03 22:47:33 107qNu-000031-00 Error message sent to  
fpage@ntrulez.oche.de

1999-02-03 22:47:33 107qNu-000031-00 Completed


The same message is generated by exim and emailed to root.

I'm really desperate, I get email, but cannot send it, due to the above  
problems :-(((

Can you or anybody enlighten a poor newbie?

Thanks very much and kind regards

Frederick