Problem setting up UUCP
Pedro Victor Pintus
peter at secyt.gov.ar
Wed Jan 9 06:58:53 AEST 1991
In article <6736 at crash.cts.com> root at crash.cts.com (Bill Blue) writes:
>In <144100018 at cdp> jim at cdp.UUCP writes:
>}>Just put a line saying 'spoolonly' in /etc/default/mail, and voila!
>}
>}Does this really work? (I know, I could try it.) How did you find this
>}information. I looked in through all my manuals and couldn't find any
>}mention of 'spoolonly'. /etc/default/mail is not even mentioned in the
>}list of relevant files in the mail man entry.
>
>I don't see how it could. If you do a strings of /usr/bin/mail,
>you'll find no reference to a spoolonly text, or /etc/default/mail.
>
>--Bill
I (as the original poster of this 'spoolonly' gotcha), can assure that
it works; I found this when I was in the same trouble using SCO's mail
and execmail, instead of a reasonable mailer as I am using now (smail 3.1,
btw).
I agree, the info isn't easy to find; I found it (with very much work)
in the Xenix SysV Release 2.2 OS User's Guide, Chapter 'Building a
Communication System', on top of the page # 6-39.
I quote the related paragraph:
"'uux' is used by 'mail(C)' when sending mail to a remote site. If you do not
want 'mail' to call the remote site inmediately, place the line 'spoolonly' in
the file '/etc/default/mail/'"
It's a strange thing, since, as you says, (and I check it), neither 'mail'
nor 'execmail' or 'uux' refers to /etc/default/mail or 'spoolonly'.
But, believe it or not, it works.
Cheers,
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