Date: Sun, 8 Sep 96 21:06:08 PDT From: Snuffles@kew.com Subject: UUPC-Info-Request Digest 1996 #17 To: uupc-info-digest@kew.com Message-ID: Reply-To: UUPC-Info-Request@kew.com UUPC-Info-Request Digest Sun, 8 Sep 96 Volume 1996: Issue 17 Today's Topics: 'g' protocol bug costs a couple of questions (4 msgs) a couple of questions (fwd) Anonymous (forged) mail comaplaint Anybody use UUPC with Packet Radio? building up a mail server Change the text for bouncing messages (3 msgs) Connecting UUCP and Microsoft Exchange Getting Pegasus mail into uucp format (2 msgs) help on uucp /uupc help on uupc import.c Moderated Newsgroups and UUPC/Extended reason to upgrade from 1.12k? (2 msgs) RMAIL 1.12r crashes when piping to another program tcpip issues (2 msgs) UUPC/Extended with ISDN on-demand circuit? UUPCNewsServ Wanted: UUBATCH beta testers Windows NT support wrong TZ with 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. Note: Questions on UUPC/extended itself which are not of general interest should be sent to help@kew.com, not to the mailing list. Nor questions should be posted on Usenet, we don't read it. (Much.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 18:20:35 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: 'g' protocol bug costs To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Tue, 23 Jul 1996 12:31:10 -0500, jdudeck@simcsg.sim.org wrote: > > 'v' is just 'g' with bigger packets. The problems known to exist (but not > > fixed) in 'g' will also affect 'v'. If the larget packets cause buffer > > overruns or other problems, then the problem is more likely to occur. > > Every few months I stick my nose in here and ask if the bug is going to be > fixed... . . . > What might snuffles REALLY like, enough to say encourage her to consider > fixing this problem? Time. And the knowledghe that it's useful to someone. You're providing the latter, we may have the former as we move into the fall. (We had hoped for it over the summer, but my traditional hack time over long weekends was taken up by a pair of trips this year.) -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 To sign off from uupc-info, send the command "signoff uupc-info" in the body of a message to listserv@kew.com. DO NOT send this request to the list itself! For human assistance with the list itself, send mail to snuffles@kew.com. "It's so easy to think of days gone by, So hard to think of times to come . . ." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 12:52:40 -0400 From: curtis@lamere.net Subject: a couple of questions To: UUPC/Extended mailing list 1) Is it possible to change the port that the tcpip.mdm connects to on a remote host over the internet? If so, how? 2) If I were to pipe mail to uupc from an smtp mailer what would the command line look like? Which program do I use? UUCICO.EXE or UUX.EXE Thanks in advance. P.S. The installation is on a P5-100 w/16MB RAM OS/2 WARP connect 56K leased line. services file is configured so that uucpd is listening on port 540. //---------------------------------------------// Curtis Maurand System Administrator - Web Master echomedia.com curtis@echomedia.com System Administrator Maine Meeting Place - Maine's Disabilities Network sysadmin@mmp.ortg ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 19:23:48 +1000 From: dougw@chaos.apana.org.au Subject: a couple of questions To: UUPC/Extended mailing list At 12:52 29/08/96 -0400, curtis@lamere.net wrote: > >1) Is it possible to change the port that the tcpip.mdm connects to on a >remote host over the internet? If so, how? ??? >2) If I were to pipe mail to uupc from an smtp mailer what would the >command line look like? Which program do I use? UUCICO.EXE or UUX.EXE I'm not 100% sure of how your mail will end up on STDIN, but here is part of a batch file I'm using on Win NT with RMAIL (and a SMTP-UUPC gateway, Win specific) Things vary depending on what headers come from the mailler, as indicated in the UUCP doco. As you'll notice, this method uses predefined variables, (hence the confusing shifts) and has the limitation of only allowing 9 recipients as it stands. (that's all I could manage at the time, and too lazy to dig up an OS book, I doubt if any NT doco would help much, anyway - the Command Line seems to be still based on DOS 5 , I set up alias lists if I want more) RMAIL can have more sophistication than this, changing username, BCCs etc. ----smtppost.bat snippet--- set TempFile=%1 shift shift set subj=%1 shift RMAIL -F %TempFile% -s %subj% %1 -c %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 ------end--- Hope this helps, regards,, Doug Woodgate ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 18:24:00 -0400 From: MarchHare@mome.apk.net Subject: a couple of questions To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Thu, 29 Aug 1996 12:52:40 -0400, curtis@lamere.net wrote: > >1) Is it possible to change the port that the tcpip.mdm connects to on a >remote host over the internet? If so, how? Dunno, but someone else can tackle that one. >2) If I were to pipe mail to uupc from an smtp mailer what would the >command line look like? Which program do I use? UUCICO.EXE or UUX.EXE For mail, use RMAIL.EXE -t John ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 19:53:06 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: a couple of questions To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Thu, 29 Aug 1996 12:52:40 -0400, curtis@lamere.net wrote: > 1) Is it possible to change the port that the tcpip.mdm connects to on a > remote host over the internet? If so, how? Add the port number after the host name and a colon in the systems file: myhost.kew.com:541 > 2) If I were to pipe mail to uupc from an smtp mailer what would the > command line look like? Which program do I use? UUCICO.EXE or UUX.EXE I think someone from posted this. I've never played with it, since the OS/2 sendmail is such a hack. I may do a real SMTP daemon. -ahd- -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 To sign off from uupc-info, send the command "signoff uupc-info" in the body of a message to listserv@kew.com. DO NOT send this request to the list itself! For human assistance with the list itself, send mail to snuffles@kew.com. "It's better to burn out than to fade away . . ." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Sep 96 19:06:03 +0100 From: kapeka@wild-ki.netzservice.de Subject: a couple of questions (fwd) To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Forwarded message: > > 1) Is it possible to change the port that the tcpip.mdm connects to on a > remote host over the internet? If so, how? Your systems entry may look like: remotesystem Any tcpip 57600 192.168.10.102:540 the last number (540) defines the port, change it to whatever You need. AFAIK kp -- K.P.Kirchdoerfer Voice: +49 431 15479 Kronshagener Weg 65 E-Mail: kapeka@wild-ki.netzservice.de 24116 Kiel The story is telling a true lie ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 08:28:56 -0500 From: "Snuffles P. Bear" Subject: Anonymous (forged) mail comaplaint To: someone@somewhere.secret > Received: from melbourne.DIALix.oz.au (mineuucp@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au [192.203.228.98]) by pioneer.ci.net (8.6.12) with ESMTP > id BAA27610 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 01:16:15 -0400 > Received: (from mineuucp@localhost) by melbourne.DIALix.oz.au (sendmail) with UUCP id PAA15204 for Snuffles@kew.com; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 15:15:58 +1000 (EST) On Tue, 27 Aug 1996 16:04:09 GMT, someone@somewhere.secret wrote: > G'day postmaster, and Snuffles, > > Please fix UUPC to only allow ... This note referred to requested changes in how UUPC-Info-Digest is posted to Usenet. As a matter of policy, we ignore all anonymous mail, and complain to site admin when mail is forged. This should be considered a formal complaint on this mail, which was forged via the list site Down Under. -- Your faithful furry servant, Ice Cream Money: PO Box 80144 Snuffles P. Bear Stoneham, MA 02180 Internet: snuffles@kew.com Drew says I can ask for chocolate again. Yea!!!!! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 19:10:27 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: Anybody use UUPC with Packet Radio? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Tue, 30 Jul 1996 13:15:58 -0500, jdudeck@simcsg.sim.org wrote: > Our organization is interested in using Packet Radio in the Sahara Desert. > Can anybody tell me how to make UUPC talk to a TNC (terminal node > controller)? Does it need a fossil driver? Where do I find info on fossil > drivers? Fossil drivers are documented in the manual; since I have never heard of TNC, I can't help you there. Dave? -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 To sign off from uupc-info, send the command "signoff uupc-info" in the body of a message to listserv@kew.com. DO NOT send this request to the list itself! For human assistance with the list itself, send mail to snuffles@kew.com. It is now pitch dark. If you proceed, you will likely fall into a pit. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 11:10:48 +0200 From: lanz@sampling.uem.mz Subject: building up a mail server To: UUPC/Extended mailing list I am using a PC with a modem link to my ISP via UUCP, the only protocoll my ISP accepts. At the moment I am running UUPC/extended and Pegasus Mail under OS/2 Warp, Windows 3.1 or DOS to send and receive email. But now I would like to build up my one mail server. In fact I am running one - the newer versions of Pegasus Mail offer some basic possibilities (mail filtering rules) to configure a mail server, but the possibilities are very limited! Q: Does anybody know about a good and FREE mail server software (it should handle mailing lists and file archives) under OS/2 Warp, Windows or DOS for a PC linked through UUCP with the ISP? I tested vmail from Vandenberg (the free version 2.99), but found some limitations in their free version of the software, that make it easier for me to use Pegasus Mail. Q: Would it be worth or necessary to change to LINUX? Which would be the software to use in that case? How would this software be in terms of reliability and user friendliness compared to the one I use now? Q: Do you have any suggestions concerning my actual configuration - I like Pegasus Mail and UUPC/extended (they are free, easy to install and in use, and very reliable - thanks to David and Drew!), or is there even better freeware around!? Thanks, Adrian. --- Adrian Lanz Haeberlin INTERNET: --- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 19:50:35 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: Change the text for bouncing messages To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Tue, 27 Aug 1996 11:16:39 +0000, THOMAS@aac.nl wrote: > Is it possible to change the text that is sent to users that the mail > is bounced for? > > I don't want this part displayed: > > "Invalid local address (not defined in PASSWD or ALIASES)." > > Also i want to add some general adresses people can send mail to... No, it cannot be changed, all the error messages are hard coded. I am open to be a better phrasing, I will not be customizing it. In general ANY problems with mail should be directed to the postmaster at the local site, I'm open to adding a generic fixed message to this effect. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 To sign off from uupc-info, send the command "signoff uupc-info" in the body of a message to listserv@kew.com. DO NOT send this request to the list itself! For human assistance with the list itself, send mail to snuffles@kew.com. The six stages of a project: 1. Unbounded enthusiasm 4. Frantic Search for the Guilty 2. Total disillusionment 5. Punishment of the Innocent 3. Panic 6. Reward of the non-participants ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 11:16:39 +0000 From: THOMAS@aac.nl Subject: Change the text for bouncing messages To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Hello All, Is it possible to change the text that is sent to users that the mail is bounced for? I don't want this part displayed: "Invalid local address (not defined in PASSWD or ALIASES)." Also i want to add some general adresses people can send mail to... Thanx, Thomas. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 13:02:50 From: THOMAS@aac.nl Subject: Change the text for bouncing messages To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Hello All, Is it possible to change the text that is sent to users that the mail is bounced for? I don't want this part displayed: "Invalid local address (not defined in PASSWD or ALIASES)." Also i want to add some general adresses people can send mail to... Thanx, Thomas. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 18:24:30 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: Connecting UUCP and Microsoft Exchange To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Mon, 22 Jul 1996 22:55:06 +-1000, pmenadue@ozemail.com.au wrote: > Has anybody done this? I've spent a bit of time playing with other UUCP = > connectors that go through MS Mail, but have yet to come across one that = Does exchange have an SMTP gateway? I'm seriously looking at writing one to connect to sendmail on our newest box, which would hopefully have other uses as well. -ahd- -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 To sign off from uupc-info, send the command "signoff uupc-info" in the body of a message to listserv@kew.com. DO NOT send this request to the list itself! For human assistance with the list itself, send mail to snuffles@kew.com. "It's so easy to think of days gone by, So hard to think of times to come . . ." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 13:33:23 +0800 (MYT) From: yvonne@egroup.po.my Subject: Getting Pegasus mail into uucp format To: UUPC/Extended mailing list I am running uupc on NT server with Pegasus clients on WFW. I have no problem getting the incoming mail (via uu2pm) to Pegasus but am struggling to automate the conversion of the outgoing mail. Can anyone help? I can run snu_fpm from the server on each outgoing message "by hand" but would like to automate it either by telling pconfig to run something or by using the -B option in uupoll. Yvonne. -- =================================================================== Yvonne Russell CMY Systems Sdn Bhd, member of Econsult Group 28 Jalan Jati 3/6, 40000 Shah Alam. Malaysia Tel: +60 3 559 4616 Fax: +60 3 550 4249 E-mail: yvonne@egroup.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 11:51:12 +1200 From: stephen@digitech.co.nz Subject: Getting Pegasus mail into uucp format To: UUPC/Extended mailing list Addressed to: yvonne@egroup.po.my UUPC/Extended mailing list ** Reply to note from yvonne@egroup.po.my Thu, 5 Sep 1996 13:33:23 +0800 (MYT) > > I am running uupc on NT server with Pegasus clients on WFW. > > I have no problem getting the incoming mail (via uu2pm) to Pegasus but am > struggling to automate the conversion of the outgoing mail. Can anyone help? > > I can run snu_fpm from the server on each outgoing message "by hand" but > would like to automate it either by telling pconfig to run something or by using the > -B option in uupoll. I run a similar system with an OS/2 server. I have set up pconfig to define a UUPC gateway that runs a do_rmail.bat file to send the mail: ===================================================================== rem Run rmail for Pegasus Mail for DOS/Windows. rem Parameters: rem 1: Up to 8 character name giving the mailbox directory name for the rem user. rem 2: The full path name of the mail file to be sent. rem echo User mailbox: %1 echo File to be rmailed: %2 rem Get back some environment space on some PCs (eg Amanda's Apricot) rem so that "Out of environment space" errors do not occur. set waste1= set waste2= set temp=s:\uupc set uupcdir=s:\uupc set uupcsysrc=%uupcdir%\digitech.rc set uupcusrrc=%uupcdir%\mail\%1\%1.rc set tz=+1200 path %uupcdir%\exe;%path% %uupcdir%\exe\rmail -t -F %2 rem Uncomment the next line and insert the correct username for rem debugging DOS box operation on one user's PC. rem if #%1 == #username pause exit ===================================================================== The s: drive is a Netware drive that is for shared data and is always defined on all our PCs, so I have the do_rmail.bat file (and a do_rmail.pif) in the s:\uupc\exe directory. This directory also contains the DOS version of rmail.exe, which also needs to be accesible to all PCs. Some PCs had problems with insufficent environment space available in DOS boxes, which I solved by the brute force method of adding a couple of lines like: set waste1=12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 set waste2=12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 in the autoexec.bat of the problem machines. Then the do_rmail.bat reclaims this space and has it available while that DOS box is running. There is an option that you can put in one of the Win 3.x *.ini files that is also supposed to solve this problem, but I had one PC where that did not work. Setting up gateways is documented in the DOS version of Pegasus, and not in the Windows version - you will need to get the pmail331.zip file. I have Pegasus running in standalone mode (-A on the command line). Run pconfig and select "Configuring Pegasus Mail/Windows", then "Manage user-defined gateways", hit insert and create a new gateway definition (I called mine UUPC). Fill in the "User Gateway Definition" screen similar to this (which I hope will email OK - it is a cut&paste of the screen image): ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ User Gateway Definition ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ»° º º° º Gateway name : [UUPC ] º¿ º *New mail path : S:\UUPC\MAIL\~8\INBASKET º³ º Is  a program to run? : N º³ º *New mail search mask : *.CNM º³ º *Outgoing mail path : S:\UUPC\MAIL\~8\OUTBASKT º³ º *Run for outgoing mail : S:\UUPC\EXE\DO_RMAIL.BAT ~8 ~c º³ º *Filename format : ~d~d.CNM º³ º Run to validate address : º³ º *Reply address format : ~8@digitech.co.nz (~p) º³ º Accepts SMTP addresses? : Y º³ º Simple message headers? : No formatting º³ º UUEncode attachments? : Y º³ º Burst messages? : N Gateway processes BCC? : Y º³ º Strip gateway name? : Y º³ º Force all mail through? : Y º³ º º³ º The name users will use to access this gateway. Addresses will º³ º be entered in the form GWNAME/address. º³ º ºÙ ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ° Let me know if you need any more help. It is a while since I got all this running so I have probably forgotten something. -- Stephen Worthington Telephone: +64-4-569-6764 (home) Digi-Tech Communications Ltd +64-4-389-8909 (work) stephen@digitech.co.nz (work) Fax: +64-4-389-9901 (work) stephen@inisant.actrix.gen.nz (home) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 18:30:00 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: help on uucp /uupc To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Sat, 27 Jul 1996 02:34:07 +0800, im_lwkab@stu.ust.hk wrote: > I've just read thru your FAQ about UUCP, I've spent a lot of time > on connecting a FreeBSD with Taylor uucp from an windows NT using > the UUPC/extended. > let me explain my problem, I tried to use the NT to put files to > the FreeBSD according to security reasons, but when I use 'f' > protocol to send files, it saids the packets are not correct, and > some checksum error, when I tried to use 'e' or 't', it said > cannot find common protocol between two systems, but I am sure > that my UUPC/extended included the 't' and the 'e' protocol, is that > possible the Taylor uucp protocol 'e' and 't' are not enabled? > or I've carelessly deleted them? Could you suggest a method for me? > I am using Taylor uucp 1.06.1, thx. Use 'g' or 'v, not 'f'. 'f' presumes a normally clean line which rarely has errors. 'e' and 't' are disabled by UUPC/extended if not using TCP/IP or named pipes, because even less error checking than for 'f' is done. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 To sign off from uupc-info, send the command "signoff uupc-info" in the body of a message to listserv@kew.com. DO NOT send this request to the list itself! For human assistance with the list itself, send mail to snuffles@kew.com. UTSL -- Use the Source, Luke! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 18:28:24 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: help on uupc To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Tue, 23 Jul 1996 21:48:21 +0800 (HKT), im_lwkab@stu.ust.hk wrote: > > Get it working with fixed packet sixty-four packet packet first -- if it > > doesn't work, you don't have a clean line. > > > I've editted the vpacketsize in the "systems" file of UUPC/extended > but it doesn't work, I got the same error message, "first message > time out.... getpkopen ...... " What other files should I editted > in the FreeBSD (remote) and the NT (local)? Could you pls give > me a detail explaination? coz I am a idiot toward the UUCP. Actually, I got FreeBSD 2.1.5 up, and discovered it natively comes with Taylor UUCP. I had it working with 'e' and 't' protocol in ~ 30 minutes. (This has been my major toy this summer -- unfortunately, I can't boot FreeBSD and work on UUPC/extended at the same time.) In any case, the two programs should chat nicely, so I suspect dirty modems or the like -- both are pretty hardy. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 To sign off from uupc-info, send the command "signoff uupc-info" in the body of a message to listserv@kew.com. DO NOT send this request to the list itself! For human assistance with the list itself, send mail to snuffles@kew.com. UTSL -- Use the Source, Luke! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 19:16:47 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: import.c To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Sun, 11 Aug 1996 21:19:43, udo@pulstar.xs4all.nl wrote: > UVDH> Some help on the parts where this binairy number is calculated and the > UVDH> base conversion is performed would be very welcome! I really, really, hate to say this, but why are you re-inventing the wheel? I'm not saying it's supposed to be hard to understand, but as a general rule programs should be looking into the spool (write using UUX, read from standard in invoked from UUXQT or RMAIL), and if you are looking in the spool, why aren't you using the real code? -ahd- -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 To sign off from uupc-info, send the command "signoff uupc-info" in the body of a message to listserv@kew.com. DO NOT send this request to the list itself! For human assistance with the list itself, send mail to snuffles@kew.com. "The religious right scares the hell out of me!" - Barry Goldwater ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 19:11:15 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: Moderated Newsgroups and UUPC/Extended To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On 07 Aug 1996 20:11:39 +1000, "Jeff Green" wrote: > How do I set up UUPC/Extended to work with moderated newsgroups? I'm > using UUPC/Ex for OS/2 v1.12k. It doesn't support them at this time. (As of 1.12s). -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 To sign off from uupc-info, send the command "signoff uupc-info" in the body of a message to listserv@kew.com. DO NOT send this request to the list itself! For human assistance with the list itself, send mail to snuffles@kew.com. "The religious right scares the hell out of me!" - Barry Goldwater ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 19:14:10 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: reason to upgrade from 1.12k? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Sat, 10 Aug 1996 14:46:04, udo@pulstar.xs4all.nl wrote: > I have UUPC 1.12k here and soon I'll have a feed so I can use it. > Solely looking at the UUCICO: would I want to upgrade to a more recent version because of bugfixes or new features, better speed, etc.? Not especially if only using a modem. Most of the recent changes have been to news, but the 't' protocol, used only for TCP/IP was fixed as well. The 'e' protocol, an alternative for TCP/IP UUCP connections works just as well and was corrected as far back as 1.12k. > If so: where can I get the right version easily? http://www.kew.com or ftp.kew.com. Ftp.Clarkson.edu is NOT currently available. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 To sign off from uupc-info, send the command "signoff uupc-info" in the body of a message to listserv@kew.com. DO NOT send this request to the list itself! For human assistance with the list itself, send mail to snuffles@kew.com. "The religious right scares the hell out of me!" - Barry Goldwater ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 19:20:51 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: reason to upgrade from 1.12k? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On 12 Aug 1996 00:00:00 +0000, hajo@quijote.in-berlin.de wrote: > > I have UUPC 1.12k here and soon I'll have a feed so I can use it. > > Solely looking at the UUCICO: would I want to upgrade to a more recent > > version because of bugfixes or new features, better speed, etc.? If so: > > where can I get the right version easily? > > > I went back to the 1.12k UUCICO to get rid of all the packet errors > (uucp-g/v). 1.12p transmits under SOME circumstances, 1.12k transmits under > ALL circumstances. Curious. There no changes between the two, but 1.12p is compiled with MS C and 1.12k was released using the Borland compilers. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 To sign off from uupc-info, send the command "signoff uupc-info" in the body of a message to listserv@kew.com. DO NOT send this request to the list itself! For human assistance with the list itself, send mail to snuffles@kew.com. The six stages of a project: 1. Unbounded enthusiasm 4. Frantic Search for the Guilty 2. Total disillusionment 5. Punishment of the Innocent 3. Panic 6. Reward of the non-participants ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 00:14:41 -1200 From: stephen@inisant.actrix.gen.nz Subject: RMAIL 1.12r crashes when piping to another program To: UUPC/Extended mailing list I have discovered a problem with RMAIL.EXE 1.12r (OS/2 32-bit) when "options=imfile" is on - it crashes when it has to pipe an email to an external program. I have test: |unique h:\u\uupc\mail\test\inbasket in my system ALIASES file, and when RMAIL.EXE has to deliver to this address, is just crashes. When "options=imfile" is off, it delivers correctly. I compiled rmail from the sources using Watcom C/C++ 10.a for OS/2, and did a little debugging to track this down, and it appears that the "imf" structure's filename field is being FOPENed when it contains only a NULL string. -- Stephen Worthington Telephone: +64-4-569-6764 (home) Digi-Tech Communications Ltd +64-4-389-8909 (work) stephen@digitech.co.nz (work) Fax: +64-4-389-9901 (work) stephen@inisant.actrix.gen.nz (home) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 19:56:22 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: tcpip issues To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Thu, 29 Aug 1996 14:06:04 -0400, curtis@lamere.net wrote: > This is my fourth message without a response, anybody home? No, we're in Montana. Well, I'm back now, but the Director of Engineering is in Maine. Tomorrow she goes to Idaho. No wonder we never get any work done. > I think that > I have my system connecting on the proper port (as per instructions on page > 51 of managing uucp and usenet, o'reilly an todino, o'reilly and associates > inc., 8/94) Whoa. What system is listening? UUPC/extended or UNIX? > Now when its waiting for the login prompt it gets: garbage. Help, I've > fallen and I can't get up! :-) See previous question, and tack on do you have the modem autobauding and system autobauding consistent with each other? -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 To sign off from uupc-info, send the command "signoff uupc-info" in the body of a message to listserv@kew.com. DO NOT send this request to the list itself! For human assistance with the list itself, send mail to snuffles@kew.com. Plastic explosives will be appropriate later in the week. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 14:06:04 -0400 From: curtis@lamere.net Subject: tcpip issues To: UUPC/Extended mailing list hello, This is my fourth message without a response, anybody home? I think that I have my system connecting on the proper port (as per instructions on page 51 of managing uucp and usenet, o'reilly an todino, o'reilly and associates inc., 8/94) Now when its waiting for the login prompt it gets: garbage. Help, I've fallen and I can't get up! :-) Curtis //---------------------------------------------// Curtis Maurand System Administrator - Web Master echomedia.com curtis@echomedia.com System Administrator Maine Meeting Place - Maine's Disabilities Network sysadmin@mmp.ortg ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 19:19:09 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: UUPC/Extended with ISDN on-demand circuit? To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Mon, 12 Aug 96 17:25:12 -0500, alarie@ibm.net wrote: > Can UUPC/Extended be implemented with an on-demand ISDN circuit to an > internet service provider? Sure, why not, so long as it looks like a serial port or TCP/IP link to UUPC/extended. I'd personally use a PPP link (PPP software not supplied!) to allow the link to be shared. I would not use DOS, rather OS/2, Win 95, or Win NT to make the OS or drivers do the work. On the other hand, if you're talking UUPC/extended directly talking to a funky device which speaks ISDN and can't emulate a modem, the answer is 'doubtful'. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 To sign off from uupc-info, send the command "signoff uupc-info" in the body of a message to listserv@kew.com. DO NOT send this request to the list itself! For human assistance with the list itself, send mail to snuffles@kew.com. "No, no, no! First you pillage, THEN you burn!" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 18:04:40 -0600 From: ghoti@lao-tse.bohica.net Subject: UUPCNewsServ To: UUPC/Extended mailing list I'm wondering what the UUPCNewsServ thing does exactly? I thought I'd ask before I screwed something up royally. :) -- May all your desires be immediately fulfilled And may you live in interesting times ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 19:08:57 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: Wanted: UUBATCH beta testers To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On 28 Jul 1996 00:00:00 +0000, hajo@quijote.in-berlin.de wrote: > Du schriebst am 23.07.96: > > > UUBATCH should work on HDB-UUCP and UUPC/Extended. > > > > BTW, I'm also working on a port to Taylor UUCP (Taylor configuration). > > Why that? Batching exists since 10 years or so. It's called (g)bsmtp, and > instead of reinventing the wheel, just look at all the existing > implementations. I mostly agree with Hajo, it should already exist for any UNIX environment supporting Taylor. (Taylor has been ported to some non-UNIX environments, those I have doubts on). > > I use UUCP transport since three years, and I never used rmail. (Okay, for > some UUPC tests.) I have never seen a feed without bsmtp support, wether > running HDB or Taylor. If it's the BSMTP I've seen, the code is not what I would call robust nor portable to a command line length limited DOS environment. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 To sign off from uupc-info, send the command "signoff uupc-info" in the body of a message to listserv@kew.com. DO NOT send this request to the list itself! For human assistance with the list itself, send mail to snuffles@kew.com. It is now pitch dark. If you proceed, you will likely fall into a pit. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 16:29:26 +1000 From: dougw@chaos.apana.org.au Subject: Windows NT support To: UUPC/Extended mailing list At 10:35 19/08/96 MST, tannen@thor.geg.mot.com wrote: >Hi, > >I am currently running UUPC on my home OS/2 Warp box (along >w/ Elm & Trn). I am very happy with this arrangement, >but because of some work circumstances I am looking at >moving over to Windows NT. I know UUPC is available for >WinNT, but what mail and news readers are available on the >*net* for WinNT that work w/ UUPC? > I use NNS, which is an NNTP server which gateways to/fro UUPC. Any GUI client that doesn't require XOVER will then work with the free version. Alternatively there is the commercial version ($US500 I think) of NNS that has XOVER and Authentification and performance enhancements. It's a little over the top if you only want a GUI for UUPC, but hey, works for me! For ages I had everything running on one only machine, I now have a 2nd machine, but it's only monochrome. For mail, there is a gateway to SMTP and POP3, available for $US75 which works fine for me; then you can use any GUI mail client (I have almost totally computer illiterate folks happy with Eudora Lite (free) in less than 5 minutes, though attachments elude me so far) If this is what you want (I think you wanted freebies, me too!) give me a yell and I'll dig up the net addresses for ya. regards, Doug ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 18:21:41 -0400 From: uupcinfo@kew.com Subject: wrong TZ with NT To: UUPC/Extended mailing list On Mon, 22 Jul 1996 22:59:56 +0200, "Ralf Meyer" wrote: > On 21 Jul 96 at 17:02, Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/extend wrote: > > > Most C libraries only support three character zones. In any case, > > use of names for the zones is pretty much obsolete and because of > > problems with sorting such issues as MST being Mountain Standard > > Time or Moscow Standard Time. So if it prints the hour offset > > properly, it's the proper (defined) behavior. > > I realize that I didn't explain the prob properly enough. I know the > date header is ok. I'm only complaining about UUPC not recognizing > that I (we) here in Germany have daylight savings time. This only > affects the "Received: by (UUPC/extended...)" header. Which really is > not critical at all (Just a little un-nice). This header shows > hh:mm:ss +0100 which should be +0200 nowadays (it just isn't the > proper hour offset). Under some systems, like OS/2, you can tell it what TZs look like. It gets to be a big hairy stream. Win 95/NT I don't know about. Dave? -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-641-3452 To sign off from uupc-info, send the command "signoff uupc-info" in the body of a message to listserv@kew.com. DO NOT send this request to the list itself! For human assistance with the list itself, send mail to snuffles@kew.com. "It's so easy to think of days gone by, So hard to think of times to come . . ." ------------------------------ End of UUPC-Info-Request Digest ******************************