HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: tron@Veritas.COM (Ronald S. Karr)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Smail 3.1.25 transport uux problem
Date: 16 Aug 92 23:11:04 GMT
Organization: VERITAS Software

In article <Bt1FCE.Bru@chinet.chi.il.us> naughton@chinet.chi.il.us (Thomas Naughton) writes:
>|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------|
> naughton@chinet.chi.il.us ... transport uux: child returned status EX_1 (1)
>|------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------|
>Received: by nauts.chi.il.us (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.3{nauts})
>
>   I don't get the message from internal mail, just when I try to get
>to the outside world.  ERR_144 tells me that uux is returning an non-
>zero result code, but I don't know why.  Any help would be appreciated!

I don't quite know why smail triggers uux to return failures, but it
does.  Usually, these errors are transient and can be handled by
retrying the mail.  Smail can be configured to reattempt delivery to
uux at a later time, which always cures these transient problems.

The 3.1.26 release (which is now available on uunet), includes
instructions on how to configure smail to retry uux calls, as needed.
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
From: mjo@ef2007.efhd.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
Subject: Re: UF-Gate
X-Disclaimer: Not an official spokesperson for Ford OPEO
Reply-To: Mike O'Connor <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
Organization: International Affairs, Overseas Engineering, "Fordz"
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 20:36:10 GMT

Are Fidonet echoes being gatewayed into the Usenet?  I mean, is there
a whole fido.* hierarchy out there and I'm just not getting it?

-- 
 Michael J. O'Connor           |  Internet:  mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com
 Ford Motor Company, OPEO      |  UUCP:      ...!{backbone}!fmsrl7!mjo
 20000 Rotunda, Bldg. 1-3001   |  Phone:     +1 (313) 248-1260
 Dearborn, MI  48121           |  Fax:       +1 (313) 323-6277
From: ian@airs.com (Ian Lance Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: modem results codes messing up login
Date: 23 Aug 92 00:53:44 GMT

tony@jassys.UUCP (Tony Holden) writes:

>The tty ports are configured as dial in/out ports with a modem
>attached.  The dialer program looks for result codes so the modem is
>configured to echo the results.  But when the modem answers a call the
>results codes (CONNECT xxx ... ...) are echoed to the login program.

I would suggest setting the modem to default to not displaying the
result codes, and adding the code to turn on the result codes in the
dial script.  You will then have to arrange to turn off the result
codes after the conversation is over.  You can usually configure your
modem to reset when DTR drops, and your computer may drop it when it
closes the port.  Alternatively, some UUCP packages provide a way to
send a string after the call is complete.
-- 
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From: wayned.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Source for FTP available?
Date: 15 Aug 92 17:56:34 GMT
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton

Does anybody know where I can locate source code for FTP?  I am running
Coherent 4.0 and it does not provide FTP.

Thanks,
Wayne Desmond       wayned.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu

+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
| Wayne Desmond                     | Happily using and working (read:  |
| OS/2 Consultant/Programmer        | earning a GOOD living) with       |
| (wayned.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu) | OS/2, since version 1.1.          |
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From: barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za (Alan P Barrett)
Subject: Re: Problem with apostrophe in mail address
Organization: Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 09:54:30 GMT

In article <221@visicom.com>,
makey@VisiCom.COM (Jeff Makey) writes:
> uuxqt cmd (rmail O'Name@valid.domain.name ) status (DENIED)

This is normal uux/uuxqt braindamage, caused by the lack of a quoting
convention in the X.* files.  There is no portable method by which the
sender could quote the address to ensure that the receiver would get
the correct result.

Don't use rmail; use BSMTP.

--apb
Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa
RFC822: barrett@ee.und.ac.za             Bang: m2xenix!quagga!undeed!barrett
From: tron@Veritas.COM (Ronald S. Karr)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Smail 3.1.25 transport uux problem
Date: 16 Aug 92 23:13:36 GMT
Organization: VERITAS Software

In article <5144@airs.com> ian@airs.com (Ian Lance Taylor) writes:
>I have no idea what version of UUCP you are running.  However, it was
>recently pointed out to me that the uux in Taylor UUCP always exits
>with 1 on failure, rather than using an exit code which mailers know
>how to interpret (this will be corrected, eventually).  If you are
>running Taylor UUCP, or even if you aren't, you should check the UUCP
>log files, to see if any error message appears there.  I assume that
>smail would be returning any messages uux writes to stderr, and that
>no such messages are being written.

Smail doesn't distinguish between different exit codes returned by
uux.  It should do so, but very few systems have a UUCP that really
returns the defined exit codes that sendmail uses for this purpose.

A second point is that an oversight in the compiled-in configuration
for the various uucp transports prevented uux's stderr from being
returned in bounce messages.  This is fixed in the just released
3.1.26 release.
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      tron@veritas.com		UUCPnet:  {apple,pyramid}!veritas!tron
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
From: johnmc@mks.com (John McMullen)
Subject: Two PEP modems  locking at 2400 baud
Summary: When does this happen?  How can I fix it?
Keywords: why?  when?
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:18:21 GMT

I appeal to the net for knowledge; I'm asking for someone who hasn't
(yet) got access.  I'm asking here since Telebits are quite popular for
UUCP connections.

In some circumstances, two Telebit PEP modems will connect and
communicate at 2400 baud.  This is a little slower than generally
wanted.  What, specifically, causes this?  (Okay, register settings.
But which register settings?)  What should be set to fix this?  Is this
in the FAQ and I missed it?  (Apologies if it is.)

E-mail is fine, or a pointer to the FAQ (though I have no ftp access).

Thanks!

John McMullen
-- 
John McMullen 
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From: ian@airs.com (Ian Lance Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Problem with apostrophe in mail address
Date: 20 Aug 92 02:53:39 GMT

makey@VisiCom.COM (Jeff Makey) writes:

>Any idea why uuxqt barfs on an address with an apostrophe in it?

Just guessing, but perhaps that version of uuxqt passes the command to
sh.  For security reasons it is checking the command to make sure that
it does not contain any characters that the shell interprets
specially.

If uuxqt is passing the command to sh, it wouldn't work anyhow if it
contains an apostrophe.  There is probably no workaround (except
changing mail addresses).

Taylor UUCP supports this by using execve, or, if that fails, by
passing the command to sh with each character quoted with backslash.
-- 
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First person to identify this quote wins a free e-mail message:
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
From: skyjuice@admiral.uucp (mark feller)
Subject: HELP! HELP! HELP! (RE: WIZARD MAIL ???)
Reply-To: skyjuice@admiral.uucp (mark feller)
Organization: The Grid/Waffle BBS, 203-661-2873, -1279, -0450, -2967
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 13:20:47 GMT

Hello All --With the usual disclaimers about posting a question in the 
wrong group, etc. I am desperately seeking information about sending 
E-Mail to an account on a system known as "Wizard"...A friend of mine 
uses this system at work and for reasons which I can't get into here, the 
telephone is not a good way for us to communicate.  Is there a gateway to 
the Wizard?  Has anyone ever heard of the Wizard? Or should I re-direct 
me question to Oz!! ;)  Responses by E-mail would be best.  Any help  
would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

--
skyjuice%admiral.uucp@yale.edu (mark feller) <yale!admiral!skyjuice>
The Admiral's Public UNIX - Greenwich, CT - System Administrator: Doug Fields
(HST/V32) (203)661-2873 -- (PEP/V32) -1279 -- (V32) -0450 -- (V29/MNP6) -2967
>FREE!< Unix shell accounts, Usenet access, and Internet-style mail available
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From: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: xmh icon
Date: 15 Aug 92 11:03:32 GMT
Reply-To: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB

In article <12662@ztivax.UUCP>, 
mcb32@ztivax.UUCP (Peter Rohm) writes:
|> Hi xmh's,
|> does anybody know a way to tell xmh what icon-pictures to use?
|> Problem: I'm telling mwm to use a different icon for xmh at startup time.
|> Works fine. But if I try to use the "-flag" option, xmh uses some built-in
|> icons (the default one with flag down and the other one with the mail-flag up). 
|> 
|> What is the name of the resource? The iconpicture file? It looks like built-in!
|> 
|> Any ideas???

From the man page for xmh:

     newMailBitmap (class NewMailBitmap)
             The bitmap to show  in  the  folder  button  when  a
             folder has new mail.  The default is ``black6''.

     newMailIconBitmap (class NewMailBitmap)
             The bitmap suggested to the window manager  for  the
             icon  when  any folder has new mail.  The default is
             ``flagup''.

     noMailBitmap (class NoMailBitmap)
             The bitmap to show  in  the  folder  button  when  a
             folder has no new mail.  The default is ``box6''.

     noMailIconBitmap (class NoMailBitmap)
             The bitmap suggested to the window manager  for  the
             icon  when no folders have new mail.  The default is
             ``flagdown''.

-- 

Michael Salmon

#include	<standard.disclaimer>
#include	<witty.saying>
#include	<fancy.pseudo.graphics>

Ericsson Telecom AB
Stockholm
From: kraizman@bullwinkle.tc.cornell.edu (Mike Kraizman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: RE: Getting repl to quote replies
Date: 13 Aug 1992 14:35:19 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Well, I've tried the suggestions (thanks). I've tried making the .mh_profile
make repl use a filter and have the filter be something like this:

body:component=">",overflowtext=">",overflowoffset=0

Unfortunately what I get is not nicely quoted text to reply to but
something of the form:

>:
	{the body of the text with a few overflowed lines preceeded
	by >}

:( What am I doing wrong and what is the right thing to do?

-- 
Misha
s5lx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
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From: tholome@esf.de (Eric Tholome)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: How to lose ~/Mail entirely... :-((
Date: 21 Aug 92 09:18:45 GMT


Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
From: ameyer@cbnews.cb.att.com (Andreas Meyer)
Subject: Anyone running the KornShell mh?
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel NJ
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 21:23:25 GMT
Followup-To: poster

In the book _The KornShell, Command and Programming Language_ by Bolsky and
Korn, there is a small version of mh written as KornShell scripts
(Chapter 18, "A Complete Application).

Is anyone running it? I'd be curious to know on what type of machine,
and how well it works.

Thanks,
Andy

    ==--
  -====---    Andreas Meyer, N2FYE                     ahm@hoserve.att.com
  --==----    AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel NJ        ..!att!hoserve!ahm
    ----
From: mcb32@ztivax.UUCP (Peter Rohm)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: xmh icon
Date: 13 Aug 92 09:48:03 GMT
Organization: Siemens A.G of Munich, Germany

Hi xmh's,
does anybody know a way to tell xmh what icon-pictures to use?
Problem: I'm telling mwm to use a different icon for xmh at startup time.
Works fine. But if I try to use the "-flag" option, xmh uses some built-in
icons (the default one with flag down and the other one with the mail-flag up). 

What is the name of the resource? The iconpicture file? It looks like built-in!

Any ideas???

Thanks and bye
Willi
P.S.: I'm not Peter Rohm, but I know him very well.
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
From: schmitz@scd.hp.com (John Schmitz)
Subject: visible bcc list in fcc copy?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Santa Clara Division
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:00:35 GMT

Wouldn't it be nice if the original message including the bcc: list
were in the copy filed by an fcc: header?  Is this possible?
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
From: siili@sumppu.fmi.fi (Tero Siili)
Subject: POP client
Originator: siili@sumppu.fmi.fi
Organization: Finnish Meteorological Institute
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 14:05:07 GMT


This question may be slightly off, but I can't recall any other suitable newsgroup...

Where can I obtain via FTP a POP client for MS-DOS?  Do these client programs have national 7-bit ASCII converters (Eudora for the Mac has several, French, Danish, Finnish/Swedish, etc.)?

Please reply via e-mail.

Tero Siili
Tero.Siili@fmi.fi
From: joseph@valis.biocad.COM (Joseph Truitt)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: why do bcc recipients see each other's addresses?
Date: 18 Aug 92 01:21:16 GMT

I'm running the Rand Mail Handler 6.6 on IRIX 4.0.x on SGI boxes.
No aliases are used in the example below.

If I send a piece of mail like this in mh from joseph@biocad.com:

  To: joseph
  Bcc: fred@falafel.com, betty@blink.com, mindy@biocad.com
  Subject: foo

  body

Then, it appears like this in fred's, betty's, and mindy's mailboxes:

  From: joseph@biocad.com
  Subject: foo
  Apparently-To: fred@falafel.com
  Apparently-To: betty@blink.com
  Apparently-To: mindy@biocad.com

  ------- Blind-Carbon-Copy

  From: joseph
  To: joseph
  Subject: foo

  body

  ------- End of Blind-Carbon-Copy

Multiple Apparently-To's, one for each bcc recipient, appear when one
or more of the bcc addresses are _outside_ of the biocad domain.  Is
there any way to prevent this?  It does not happen if every bcc
recipient is _in_ the biocad domain.  Berkeley Mail doesn't have this
problem at all (I tried it), which may mean that my sendmail.cf is not
at fault, but I'm really not sure what to check, next.  Suggestions?
(besides maintaining separate alias lists for mh and berzerkley mail)

 ____________________________________________________________________
|                                                                    |
| joseph@biocad.com 415/903-3923                                     |
|                                                                    |
| "I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and |
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From: chris@LASLO.NERSC.GOV
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: X.400 addressing
Date: 17 Aug 92 17:42:17 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


It is very important to my application of MH that X.400 addresses be
accepted.  Is there anyone that can give me any helpful information 
concerning a modification that might allow MH to accept X.400 addres-
ses?  Thanks in advance.

- Christopher Murray                  NIS Group
  National Energy Research Supercomputer Center
  internet: cmurray@nersc.gov
From: jerry@ORA.COM (Jerry Peek)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Anonymous ftp archive of MH scripts and files
Date: 17 Aug 92 16:58:55 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

There's a new directory called pub/mh/contrib on ftp.ics.uci.edu (now
128.195.1.1, but that may change).  It's a place for scripts (shell,
perl, etc.), format files, and other useful MH stuff contributed by
users.  John Romine set it up.  I put some scripts in there; you
can add more.

Although I don't know the policy of U.C. Irvine or ICS, it's safe to
say that they don't support the files in the archive or guarantee that
they'll do what you want.  Use at your own risk, etc.

I've agreed to accept contributions from people and put them into the
archive every month or so.  Mail to jerry@ora.com.  To start, I'm going
to try to do a little filtering, to weed out stuff that MH can already
handle.  For instance, if someone sends a script that uses "grep" to
find messages, and the MH "pick" command can do the same thing, I'll
probably send it back with an explanation.  I won't be very picky,
though.  I *won't* test contributions thoroughly or "approve" them.
Send me contributions, comments, flames, etc.  Thanks.

--Jerry Peek, O'Reilly & Associates, jerry@ora.com or uunet!ora.com!jerry
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
From: march@nynexst.com (Gregory March)
Subject: Scan problem: {status}
Organization: NYNEX Science & Technology Center, White Plains, N.Y.
Date: 20 Aug 92 14:27:05


If this is an FAQ, feel free to start shooting...


I am having problems getting the scan to show articles that I have
read as read using the scan.mailx form. There does not appear to be a
"Status:" header being added to the message after I've read it. Is
this an MH problem, or have I done some other brain damaged thing?

Thanks...

greg

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Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
From: william@stat.lsa.umich.edu (William Pietri)
Subject: MH front-end programs for novice users
Organization: University of Michigan Department of Statistics
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 17:53:00 GMT

I was wondering if anyone has written an MH front end that acts like
/usr/ucb/mail.  I have a number of novice users here that might be more
comfortable converting to MH if they can in the interim use a program
that works like something that they already are familiar with.

(I also have an interest in writing an MH front end that acts like the
mail program on our local mainframe; a program that uses MH to mimic a
different interface would be a great starting point.)

Please reply via e-mail and I'll summarize to this newsgroup.

Thanks,

William

-- 
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Stat. Dept. Sysadmin and	|    or: william@stat.lsa.umich.edu
   ITD/CSS Consultant		|    or: USERW28W@UMICHUM.bitnet
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From: bowling@brain.stat.ufl.edu (Dan Bowling)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: mh on a Sun problem
Keywords: mh, Sun, comp, repl, config
Date: 18 Aug 92 15:34:33 GMT
Reply-To: bowling@brain.stat.ufl.edu (Dan Bowling)
Organization: U of Florida. Statistics Dept.

We've been using mh on our DEcstations for quit some time.  With a new shipment of Suns, we have installed mh on these machines.  All the commands work fine :-) but the comp and repl send out strange "from:" and "cc:" addresses.

As an example:
The Sun machine is skate.stat.ufl.edu.  If I send mail from it, I want the "from:" header to read "bowling" if it's local mail and "bowling@stat.ufl.edu" otherwise (Side note: we have an MX record set up to send mail to stat.ufl.edu).  This is the way it would work if skate.stat.ufl.edu were a DECstation.  But presently when I send mail, the "from:" header reads "bowling@skate".  This won't cut it.

Any suggestions on what's happenning and how to correct it?  Below I've included a copy of our configuration file for MH.  Thanks for listening.

later,
dan

------- config file .... src/mh/mh-6.7/conf/MH ---------------
# For Sun OS 4.* with SendMail, running Yellow Pages, and /etc/named.
# MH will post mail through an SMTP connection to the localhost's
# SendMail daemon.  Be sure to set "servers" in your mtstailor file.
#
bin     /usr2/Mh/bin
etc     /usr2/Mh/lib/mh
mail    /usr/spool/mail
mandir  /usr2/Mh/man
manuals standard
editor  prompter
mts     sendmail/smtp
options BSD42 BSD43 SUN40 SUN41 TYPESIG=void
options DBM
#options BIND
curses  -lcurses -ltermcap
ranlib  on
ldoptions -s -O
#
# include "bbc" support to read NetNews via the NNTP.
#
bboards nntp
bbdelivery off
pop     on
#
# These are optional:
#
# DUMB    restricts some address defaulting
# RPATHS  don't throw away UNIX "From " lines
# MHE     for Emacs/MH interface
# SBACKUP change to "#" instead of ","
# MSGPROT default messages to 0600 protection mode
#
options DUMB
options RPATHS
options MHE
options SBACKUP='"\\043"'
options MSGPROT='"0600"'
--------------------------- end of config -----------------------
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Subject: Problems with repl
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 21:53:44 GMT
Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI

I'm having a problem with repl.  Environment is MH 6.7.2, Esix SVR4
4.0.3, smail3.1.25.  MH was compiled with the following options:

version: MH 6.7.2 #7[UCI] (mudos) of Wed Jul 8 02:23:14 EDT 1992
options: [ATTVIBUG] [LOCKF] [MORE='"/usr/bin/more"'] [MSGPROT='"0600"']
         [SENDMTS] [SHADOW] [SOCKETS] [SPRINTFTYPE=int] [SYS5] [SYS5DIR]
         [TYPESIG=void]

The problem is that when I reply to a message, the To: address has
".UUCP" appended to it.  For example, if the original message had a
From: line that looked like this:

From: joe@bigu.edu (Joe User)

and I use "repl" to reply to it, the To: line in the message draft
will be filled in with

To: joe@bigu.edu.UUCP (Joe User)

Naturally, this causes mail to bounce if I don't manually correct it.
Why is this happening, and what can I do to fix it?

-- 
Marc Unangst                | Real men don't make backups.  Real men never
mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us   | accidentally delete files that they're going
                            | to need later.
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