Date: Sun, 29 Oct 95 22:33:24 EST From: Snuffles@kew.com Subject: UUPC-Info-Request Digest 1995 #39 To: uupc-info-digest@kew.com Message-ID: Reply-To: UUPC-Info-Request@kew.com UUPC-Info-Request Digest Sun, 29 Oct 95 Volume 1995: Issue 39 Today's Topics: (Fwd) Crashing rmail.exe within Windows Front ends for uupc mail / news (6 msgs) Hard-coded limit to number of users in usertabl.c INT14 or NASI modem Support? Question UUCP For Windows NT UUCP product for NT To subscribe to UUPC-Info-Digest, send the command in the body of a message to listserv@kew.com: subscribe uupc-info-Digest To signoff from UUPC-Info-Digest, use "signoff" instead of "subscribe". You can also send an "index" to the listserv to get an index of back issues and other files available for retrieval. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 19:20:06 +0100 From: andreas@r2d2.teuto.de Subject: To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Received: by localhost from r2d2.teuto.de (router,WinSmtp -Win32- V1.07beta1.5.s(unregistered)); Sun, 29 Oct 1995 19:20:05 Received: from Luke by r2d2.teuto.de (192.168.1.3::mail daemon,WinSmtp -Win32- V1.07beta1.5.s); Sun, 29 Oct 1995 19:20:00 Comments: Authenticated sender is From: Andreas Schuerheck Organization: Homesite of Andreas To: uupc-info@kew.com Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 20:19:02 +0100 Subject: SMTP/POP3 Server to work with UUPC/extended NT - success :-) Reply-to: Andreas Schuerheck Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.01) X-MailDaemon: Message-Id: <19951029192005.099de685.in@r2d2.teuto.de> Finally I succeeded in 'persuading' WinSMTP to work in conjunction with UUPC/extended on WindowsNT. I wrote a small gateway which looks for incoming or outgoing files(mails), parses the header of the file to look for the recipient (only needed for incoming mails) and envokes rmail from the uupc-package or wrmail32 from WinSMTP-package to deliver from/to WinSMTP. Further I needed a small tools to which incoming uupc-mail is piped via forward file, so that mails arrive seperately instead of combined in a single mailbox-file. It finally works and gives the chance to use other newsreaders than tin to answer via mail (most newsreaders need a smtp-server), but I will have to set up several things for every user: - uupc-useraccount - forward file - smtp/pop3 account Has someone out there found a better/easier solution? If not, or if you are interested in further details, let me know. Andreas //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Andreas Schuerheck email: andreas@r2d2.teuto.de Lemgo - Germany *** I'm not young enough to know everything //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 19:49:29 +0000 From: CHUNG@emis.mec.gov.na Subject: (Fwd) Crashing rmail.exe within Windows To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Forwarded message: From: Self To: uupc-info@kew.com Subject: Crashing rmail.exe within Windows Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 12:05:08 We're running Pegasus for Windows which calls UUPC (DOS) for transport. When Pegasus calls rmail in a minimized DOS window, Windows occasionally crashes saying that the DOS window executed an illegal instruction. It doesn't happen too often, just enough to be annoying. Anyone out there knows what going on? Is there a windows rmail.exe that may solve the problem? Advance thanks! /Chien-Li Chien-Li Chung RPCV/Namibia '91-'93 Mail: Data Systems Adviser Room 270 MEC Building Basic Education Reform Project Education Management Information Ser. Florida State University Ministry of Education & Culture P.O. Box 5071 Ausspannplatz Tel: +264 61 2933208 Windhoek Fax: +264 61 224796 Republic of Namibia ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 10:49:18 +1300 (NZDT) From: dvh@Aristotl.auckland.ac.nz Subject: Front ends for uupc mail / news To: UUPC/Extended mailing list I would like to use uupc as the mail and news acquisition tools for Windows95 and NT platforms for users who are not likely to be comfortable with command line tools. I have had an extensive hunt for appropriate GUI tools but have not found any / many that will interface nicely with uucp. Any thoughts ?? All assistance appreciated. -- (Dr.) David V. Hawke Geographic Technologies Unit Ph: +64 9 373 7522 X8445 Auckland UniServices Fax: +64 9 373 7412 58 Symonds St., Auckland, New Zealand PB 92019, Auckland, New Zealand dvh@aristotl.auckland.ac.nz dvh@auckland.ac.nz ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Oct 95 22:37:11 PDT From: coffler@jeck.wa.com Subject: Front ends for uupc mail / news To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Hi David, On Sun, 22 Oct 1995 10:49:18 +1300 (NZDT) dvh@Aristotl.auckland.ac.nz wrote: >I would like to use uupc as the mail and news acquisition tools for >Windows95 and NT platforms for users who are not likely to be comfortable >with command line tools. > >I have had an extensive hunt for appropriate GUI tools but have not found >any / many that will interface nicely with uucp. > >Any thoughts ?? > >All assistance appreciated. It depends what you're trying to do ... If you want a wide variety of GUI tools, then you need an NNTP-compliant news server. NNS is an NNTP-compliant freeware news server for the NT platform, and it will integrate with UUPC (UUPC can do the batch retrieval, and NNS would unbatch it, store it, and forward it to other sites via either UUPC or NNTP). For more information on NNS, send MAIL to "nns@jeck.wa.com" for an automated response. Note that NNS only runs on Windows/NT. I don't support Win95. I _CAN_ do this, but most of the existing users want other stuff first, and ultimately, for a variety of reasons, NT is a far better platform for server products than Win95 is anyway. For Win95 and NT, assuming you're using NNS, you can use WinVN, Mosaic, Netscape, News Express, Free Agent, TIN, Chameleon, or a variety of other NNTP compliant news clients. There's a bunch out there once you're into NNTP compliance. Hope this was helpful, -- Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 17:42:39 +0100 From: andreas@r2d2.teuto.de Subject: Front ends for uupc mail / news To: UUPC/Extended mailing list > Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 10:49:18 +1300 (NZDT) > From: dvh@Aristotl.auckland.ac.nz > Subject: Front ends for uupc mail / news > To: UUPC/Extended mailing list > I would like to use uupc as the mail and news acquisition tools for > Windows95 and NT platforms for users who are not likely to be comfortable > with command line tools. > > I have had an extensive hunt for appropriate GUI tools but have not found > any / many that will interface nicely with uucp. > > Any thoughts ?? > > All assistance appreciated. My first solution: take Pegasus-Mail, configure a user defined gateway. Put a 'forward'-File in your home directory and pipe every incoming mail into a program, that writes it into a seperate file so that Pegasus can distinguish the different mails. I once wrote a little tool for that with Turbo Pascal (yes it's a DOS-program, but it works). If you don't do that, you'll alway get only one mail, but that one will contain all the mails you got within one uupc-connect. My second solution: I'm currently developing a GUI-Mailreader to work directly with the UUPC mailbox file and rmail. I don't know when I'll be able to release a first Beta. It depends on the amount of time, I can spare for this job. I'm writing the program (it's called uumail BTW) in VB with some stuff in VC++, so I hope there will be a Release for Win32 and Win31 as soon as I get Visual Basic 4.0. For now I have implemented some more stuff than 'mail' does, but it doesn't satisfy my needs yet. What is missing the most is: - using several mailfoders and automatically filtering for mailinglists - support for Mime and UUen/-decode - some minor stuff If you're interested in testing, let me know and perhaps have a look at http://www.teuto.de/~andreas for some information and hyperlinks to the programs (the page is still under construction). For GUI-newsreaders you will have to set up an nntp-server and then take any nntp-newsreader you like (Forte Free Agent, news for NT, WinVN etc.). But I'd rather take tin for that job. The only nntp-server I know (and of cause use) is nns from Jeff Coffler. It works fine, but still doesn't support XOVER so some newsreaders will not work (news for NT >= V0.70 i.e.). bye Andreas //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Andreas Schuerheck email: andreas@r2d2.teuto.de Lemgo - Germany *** I'm not young enough to know everything //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 19:22:22 +0100 From: andreas@r2d2.teuto.de Subject: Front ends for uupc mail / news To: UUPC/Extended mailing list > Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 10:49:18 +1300 (NZDT) > From: dvh@Aristotl.auckland.ac.nz > Subject: Front ends for uupc mail / news > To: UUPC/Extended mailing list > I would like to use uupc as the mail and news acquisition tools for > Windows95 and NT platforms for users who are not likely to be comfortable > with command line tools. > > I have had an extensive hunt for appropriate GUI tools but have not found > any / many that will interface nicely with uucp. > > Any thoughts ?? > > All assistance appreciated. My first solution: take Pegasus-Mail, configure a user defined gateway. Put a 'forward'-File in your home directory and pipe every incoming mail into a program, that writes it into a seperate file so that Pegasus can distinguish the different mails. I once wrote a little tool for that with Turbo Pascal (yes it's a DOS-program, but it works). If you don't do that, you'll alway get only one mail, but that one will contain all the mails you got within one uupc-connect. My second solution: I'm currently developing a GUI-Mailreader to work directly with the UUPC mailbox file and rmail. I don't know when I'll be able to release a first Beta. It depends on the amount of time, I can spare for this job. I'm writing the program (it's called uumail BTW) in VB with some stuff in VC++, so I hope there will be a Release for Win32 and Win31 as soon as I get Visual Basic 4.0. For now I have implemented some more stuff than 'mail' does, but it doesn't satisfy my needs yet. What is missing the most is: - using several mailfoders and automatically filtering for mailinglists - support for Mime and UUen/-decode - some minor stuff If you're interested in testing, let me know and perhaps have a look at http://www.teuto.de/~andreas for some information and hyperlinks to the programs (the page is still under construction). For GUI-newsreaders you will have to set up an nntp-server and then take any nntp-newsreader you like (Forte Free Agent, news for NT, WinVN etc.). But I'd rather take tin for that job. The only nntp-server I know (and of cause use) is nns from Jeff Coffler. It works fine, but still doesn't support XOVER so some newsreaders will not work (news for NT >= V0.70 i.e.). bye Andreas //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Andreas Schuerheck email: andreas@r2d2.teuto.de Lemgo - Germany *** I'm not young enough to know everything //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 01:02:40 GMT From: rafa@vesta.cybered.es Subject: Front ends for uupc mail / news To: UUPC/Extended mailing list > Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 10:49:18 +1300 (NZDT) > From: dvh@Aristotl.auckland.ac.nz > Subject: Front ends for uupc mail / news > To: UUPC/Extended mailing list > I would like to use uupc as the mail and news acquisition tools for > Windows95 and NT platforms for users who are not likely to be comfortable > with command line tools. > > I have had an extensive hunt for appropriate GUI tools but have not found > any / many that will interface nicely with uucp. > > Any thoughts ?? > > All assistance appreciated. > You can get a good uucp email for Windows95 in info@alhambra.cybered.es ( send help). A little problem..., Alhambra is in spanish lenguage. If you want more help "Moises@ddd.cybered.es" could do it. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ALHAMBRA agiliza su comunicación habitual y le libera tiempo para la relación personal ------------------------------------------------------------------- CYBERED Rafael López-Peña Ordóñez c/Penélope 10 28230 Las Rozas - Madrid - ESPAÑA ----------------------------------------------------- Tlef. : +34-1-6317259 e_mail : rafa@prafa.cybered.es ----------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri,27 Oct 1995 10:20:30 GMT From: Moises@ddd.cybered.es Subject: Front ends for uupc mail / news To: UUPC/Extended mailing list >I would like to use uupc as the mail and news acquisition tools for >Windows95 and NT platforms for users who are not likely to be comfortabl= e >with command line tools. > >I have had an extensive hunt for appropriate GUI tools but have not foun= d >any / many that will interface nicely with uucp. > >Any thoughts ?? Hi David: We have develope a Windows 3.1 front-end for Mail based on uupc. We have = used Visual=20 Basic 3.0 with some DLL=B4s in C++. It allows to send/receive attached fi= les with=20 uuencode protocol. It has been tested on Windows-95 and it seems to run=20 smoothly (even faster). All the programs are compiled under W.31 Just now we=B4ve got a beta-version that is MIME-compliant and includes U= SENET=20 newsreader. The only problem: It=B4s in spanish language, but It=B4s ready to transla= te into english. It depends on the amount of people who asks for it. Geetings... -------------------------------------------------- Moises Robles Direcci=F3n De Desarrollo CYBERED, SPAIN Email: Moises@ddd.cybered.es Telf/fax: +34-58-266439 -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 08:29:45 -0400 From: Software@kew.com Subject: Hard-coded limit to number of users in usertabl.c To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Wed, 18 Oct 1995 12:12:00 +0200, "Stephen Marquard" wrote: > Re the following bit of code from lib\usertabl.c: > > /*--------------------------------------------------------------------*/ > /* i n i t u s e r */ > /* */ > /* Intializes a user table entry for for loaduser */ > /*--------------------------------------------------------------------*/ > > struct UserTable *inituser(char *name) > { > > static size_t allocUsers = 100; /* Number of users allocated */ > size_t hit = userElements; > size_t element = 0; > > if (users == NULL) > { > users = calloc(allocUsers, sizeof(*users)); > checkref(users); > } > > This imposes a limit of 100 users in \etc\passwd, after which things > start behaving erratically (it seems not to be checking this limit > elsewhere, so is probably writing into illegal memory locations for > users>100). > > Is it possible to get rid of this limit without major recoding, or > alternatively increase it to 1000 or something safer? Refusing to add > more users after the limit is exceeded would prob. also be a good > idea. But if you look later in the same file., you'll see the code reallocates a larger array if needed: if (hit == userElements) { if ( (hit-1) == allocUsers) { allocUsers *= 4; users = realloc(users, allocUsers * sizeof(*users)); checkref( users ); } users[hit].uid = newstr(name); users[hit].realname = EMPTY_GCOS; users[hit].beep = NULL; users[hit].homedir = E_pubdir; users[hit].hsecure = NULL; users[hit].password = NULL; users[hit].sh = uucpsh; userElements++; } /* if */ Someone else complained (or was it you?) and I asked what error message they get, and I never got a response. I suspect you just plain can't fit that many users (400 in the above code) into a 64K data segement. I am NOT saying I don't have a bug in the code, but people keep reporting the limit is hardcoded which is not the problem. -ahd- -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 Shopping list: Cherry Garcia Ice Cream ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 10:23:06 EST From: paul@lyme.com Subject: INT14 or NASI modem Support? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Microsoft Mail v3.0 IPM.Microsoft Mail.Note From: Paul Landry To: 'SMTP:uupc-info-request@kew.com' Subject: INT14 or NASI modem Support? Date: 1995-09-29 09:32 Priority: Message ID: F372EDA7 Conversation ID: F372EDA7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hi! I currently have UUPC running on a 386DX-25 w/ a 14.4 Modem, hooked up to my Novell Network. I also have a modem server that supports Novell's NASI, and DOS's INT-14 modem calles. Has anyone written a modem driver for UUPC that will recognize these two services? I'd like to have the UUPC server use the MODEM server. Thanks! Paul "Spoon-Man" P.S. Love your product. ( I'll be donating a copy to my old High School, so they can get connected. Expect to see the check around mid- to late-October. ) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 13:22:05 +0100 From: ana@dvnet.es Subject: Question To: UUPC/Extended mailing list I am installing UUPC 1.12o on an advanced Windows Nt Server. My peer machine is a PC running Solaris PC. I'm having a problem with the chat scrip used at login. What happens is that my Windows NT Server receives login and sends its login, but I'm afraid the peer machine doesn't recognize it as an account. Does anyone have experience in installing UUCP on Solaris2.4? I want the machine running Solaris2.4 to run as a slave, that is, it will never call my Windows NT Server. Thank you in advance ana@dvnet.es ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 13:15:04 -0700 From: djohnson@microsoft.com Subject: UUCP For Windows NT To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Can you send me info. on UUCP product for Windows NT? Thanks. David C. Johnson Program Manager - WSPU ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Oct 95 15:39:59 PST From: craigde@microsoft.com Subject: UUCP product for NT To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Can I please have some info on this e-mailed out. thanks Craig Dewar Systems Engineer Microsoft NZ ------------------------------ End of UUPC-Info-Request Digest ******************************