[EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Bonser) wrote: > >Since I do UUCP, all of my installations are non-standard. I run Exim but >Debian does not know that, it thinks I am running smail. I simply >hand-copied the Exim binary into place on the target machines, created the >needed directories, set all permissions as Debian does for exim. I have >Exim facing the internet for SMTP and it hands off mail destined for my >uucp sites to smail which does the routing/spooling. It is really a kluge.
This sounds really bogus. Do you *really* need smail's bangpath handling? With this, I mean using the uucp maps etc. to figure out the correct routing etc. If all you have is a number of uucp neighbours with which you have to exchange email, exim is fully up to the task, given a couple of changes to the exim.conf file. I use exim with uucp on two debian systems. These are globally the changes needed: In the global part: trusted_users = mail:uucp for receiving mail correctly. In the transports section: uucp: driver = pipe user = nobody command = "/usr/bin/uux -r - $host!rmail ${local_part}" return_fail_output = true In the routers section, below any possible smtp entries: xs4all: driver = domainlist transport = uucp route_list = "xs4all.nl xs4all" I only want to send emails over the uucp link if they're destined for the xs4all.nl domain, which explains the route_list. However, "transport = uucp" works fine for the smarthost and other entries as well. Furthermore a rewrite rule may be necessary if your uucp partner sends mail to a bang path. I don't need that with xs4all, but I can look it up on the other system (not local for me at the moment) if necessary. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl | Murphy Software, Enschede, the Netherlands "In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems." (Linus Torvalds, August 1997)