Subject: SCO Sendmail over UUCP Help!

From: [email-masked] (Kevin Davies)
Date: 11 Feb 95 17:55:22 GMT

I HAVE to set up sendmail over UUCP.
I *think I  have the UUCP setup ok. Well, I can connect and the script works.
I am using SCO's flavour of sendmail and I hear this sendmail v8 is pretty damn
good. I'll do anything for GOOD documentation *gasp*.

You see, I got thrown in the deep end and for the past week I have been drowning.
I was told "please hook us up to the Internet. Thankyou!". Well MMDF looked like
the horror story that it is. And the mail program leaves a lot to be desired *yuk*. So
I blithly said nothing and away I went.... Boss won't pay the money for a professional!

On the first day....  :-)
"What is MMDF?" (Mutant Mungrel Damaged Forwarder?)
"UUCP" oh... I see...	ahh connected! WRONG HOSTNAME?
"Changed host name... oops Lotus won't run and no-one can print!"

On the second day... ;-)
"MMDF - I thought channel was a perfume?"
"New activation key from Lotus and printing fixed!"
"Oh I need to get Pine... ahh! PPP over TCP/IP!"

On the third day ....:-|
"PPP ... DNS won't work!"
"PPP doesn't work! oh, need upgrade AND patch"
"Hmmm I DO NOT want to use named!"
"Discovered /usr/lib/uucp/uuinstall,  hmmm that's a lot easier"

On the fourth day .... :-(
"Umm why DNS not working? ahh resolv.conf GOD I HATE UNIX!"
"Oh! upgrade TCP/IP and patch! NOW it WORKS, got pine"
"pine man pages? troff/nroff/tbl? You have to BUY THESE EXTRA?"
"Pine uses SENDMAIL? Pine needs libcrypt.a????"
"AhHA! got the crypt lib but its called libcrypt_i.a! hmm: ln libcrypt_i.a libcrypt.a"
"Activated sendmail byebye MMDF good!"

On the fifth day ... :-O    ->   #@%^#$!!
"Compiled gzip, zip, unzip, where do I get troff/nroff/tbl??? gnu version requires c++!"
"Pine keeps activating the PPP link. I can't have that!"
"Pine is sending mail but to where????"
"Ahhh crontab for UUCPing .... where does sendmail put its stuff?"
"Where does UUCP pick up the mail from (directory)?"

NOW... *grin* what a week!
So there you go and that is where I am. PPP has been disabled until I can figure out
a way to implement some security (someone mentioned TCP/IP wrappers (that's next)).
I think I did ok considering I knew NOTHING about the SCO mailing system or serial
TCP/IP. It was a hell of a ride and it still needs finishing. You see, I left the company on
Friday ... my last day. And knowbody there knows a damn thing about it. I will have
to finish it for them but now they will PAY me properly for it.

It isn't quite working as yet but I am very close... UUCP is ok.. need to set up the crontab
entries. Asking around to find out why Pine is activating the PPP link... in fact it won't
start until the link is up and running!
Next ... Get Pine -> sendmail -> uucp running completely.
Install procmail, and tcp/ip wrappers for PPP link (You see i need to have
telnetd and ftpd running for internal network.)

*sigh* still got some work to do but at least I have some idea now.
If you can make any suggestions then please do so. I am committed to using UUCP
for mail at this stage. Please forward this to the appropriate groups/people if
required.

Thankyou sincerely and humbly in advance

Kevin

-- A bug is a bug is a bug is a bug is a bug is a bug is a... *splat*... "annoying!" --

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From: "Michael J. Corrigan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 09:00:57 -0800

sendmail v8 will bring up the PPP link unless you compile
with -DNAMED_BIND=0.
get c++ to compile gnu troff by getting gnu gcc and the extra g++
part.