SUMMARY: uucleanup problems

From: Frank Cusack (fcusack@voicenet.com)
Date: Mon Dec 15 1997 - 13:17:05 CST


I used to wait a few days before posting a summary but I've learned
that almost all replies come back in a day.

In this case, no one replied. My solution: work around it by modifying
the uudemon.cleanup script until I can bring it up with Sun. For
some reason, I doubt Sun will do anything though, considering the
poor state of their uucp documentation (many errors) and the fact
that uucp should probably go the way of the dinosaur.

> Hi,
>
> Any UUCP pros out there?? Having problems with uucleanup and mail.
>
> For files older than the warn time, it mails the sender a warning.
> But for files older than 7 days (-D7) it does NOT mail the sender
> a non-delivery notice. It doesn't look like it's even trying (from -x9).
>
> The man page says it returns undeliverable mail, which it isn't doing.
>
> Furthermore, when a piece of mail is older than 7 days, it removes the C
> file and one of the D files (the one that will become an X file on the
> other end of the uucp connection, with delivery instructions) but leaves
> the D file which actually contains the mail message in the spool folder.
> The uudemon.cleanup script doesn't remove this either (it expects
> uucleanup to remove it).
>
> Since the man page says these things should happen, I assume that I have
> something misconfigured, but I can't tell what. Any suggestions
> appreciated
>
> Not a big deal about leaving the mail around, I can add a line to
> uudemon.cleanup to remove this (although I shouldn't have to), but I want
> notices to go out for undeliverable mail!
>
> I see this on both Solaris 2.3 and 2.6 (haven't tested other versions),
> with both qmail and sendmail as MTA's.
>
> thanks
> --
> ~frank
> * I am Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. You will be approximated. *
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>
>
>

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~frank
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