UUCP and sequence counts (was uuxqt and rmail)

[J.Pearce at cs.ucl.ac.uk]

We have finally managed to track down the problem with uuxqt to
/usr/lib/uucp/USERFILE. We are using system specific uucp logins
and have found that the following entry in USERFILE solves the
problem.

$ more USERFILE
uheimdall , heimdall /usr/spool/uucppublic
$

The spaces either side of the first comma that separates the login
name and system seem to be critical - without them you get the
problems my colleague reported in his earlier message.

However, we have now struck another minor, but nevertheless annoying
problem. As an added security precaution we have tried to get the
conversation count feature to work. As stated in the A/UX manuals
we simply added the remote system name to the SQFILE. However, this
just results in bad sequence number messages at both ends.

We tried "faking" entries in SQFILE, e.g.

heimdall 0 06/19-00:00

but with no luck - but we still get the same error.

Could someone please tell us if there is any known problem with
sequence counts in A/UX 2.0.1 (or has it even been fully implemented) ?

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

John R. Pearce

jpearce at uk.ac.ucl.cs