-------- On Sun, Jun 15 1997 11:20 BST Philip Hands writes: > > Exim doesn't provide UUCP capabilities *at all*, thus it is rather > > useless for sites that use UUCP (like me). > > I expect that you will admit that UUCP sites are a minority. I use UUCP, but > I don't think that the majority of users who do not should be forced to use a > cumbersome mail transfer agent because of that.
As several people already pointed out, the phone costs in Europe are rather high; so that people like to use the transfer agent with the shortest connection duration, which is doubtless UUCP. But this requires an MTA which is capable of bang-paths in the envelope (i.e. the From /MAIL FROM: fields (depending whether you use rmail or rsmtp) [The From: field is nowadays of course a FQDN]. exim should be able to parse simple bang-paths IMO (host!user), since most UUCP paths are nowadays only one hop or two,or this deficiency should be documented in the package (Conflicts: uucp or something like that) [ I agree with the rest of the post about setup-friendliness, complexity and security] David -- David Frey |Linux --- the choice of a GNU generation! 51F35923114FC8647D05FF173C61EFDE|GE C++ UL+++ P- W-- !w--- PGP++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] R D--- e++ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
