Hi all, after trying to configure sendmail (pain in the neck) to work with uucp, I gave up on sendmail and (thanks for the exim-thread) tried exim.
Now this really went smooth, I also read some of the docs and had it set up quite nicely. Wow, *this* is really a difference. Haven't set up procmail yet, but tried an uucp-connect (uupoll provider) logged in as root and this time it really worked! sendmail just needed about 2 minutes for each email, before it got "trashed", I found those in an error-directory later (ok, so I did configure sendmail incorrectly). Exim delivered the mail in an instance. Logged in under my normal user-account and wow! The email was ready for me in pine. Man, was I glad! Even the German character-set was correct, I could read and write "umlaute". I was so proud, you won't believe it (ok, I'm a newbie). Happily responded to the emails and made a cc to two other email-addresses of mine. Haven't got the responses (yet?), it's two hours by now. My responses are located with cryptic names in /var/spool/exim/input, obviously ready to be delivered but don't seem to get transmitted to my uucp provider. What did I do wrong this time? :-( Any help will be appreciated and I apologize already for these dumb questions. Kind regards Frederick
