Subject: Re: uucp stuff...?
To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/29/1997 20:52:26
Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
> 
> I'm having a hellish time understanding sendmail, and I don't have $30 for
> the book, although I'll get the book as soon as humanly possible. (I *do*
> have the sendmail pocket reference, but that doesn't explain things in
> sufficient detail for me, unfortunately.)
> 
> Is there *any* easy way to tell sendmail that uucp is its primary method of
> dealing with the world? I even got so far as to successfully poll for mail,
> pulling in a bunch, but then sendmail kicked in and instead of delivering
> the mail to mailboxes, it looked like it was going to try to repackage the
> mail and send it out somewhere.

FWIW I use exim - ftp://ftp.cus.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programs/exim/

Just *ONE* configuration file ! which accepts regexp and dbm files...

Patrick