From: wusel@hactar.hanse.de (Kai 'wusel' Siering)
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 18:00:17 +0100
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Reply-To: "Kai 'wusel' Siering" <wusel@hactar.hanse.de>
Subject: Re: Mail Bouncing & other Ramblings
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In article <overlord.0b6j@megalith.miami.fl.us>,
	overlord@megalith.miami.fl.us (Carlos Amezaga [POSTMASTER]) writes:

%       I have some questions like usual.  I know Amiga UUCP 1.16D or
% previous do not bounce mail, so I was wondering are their plans to add
% this feature into Amiga UUCP?  Or is there some external utility which

     As to  my  knowledge (I'm not running the 1.16 sendmail), bouncing for
unknown  local  users  is  already implemented? But there are also (AREXX-)
scripts which take care of this (but don't ask me where to find them =:-<).

[...]
%       By the great power of Internet, I have been able to configure a
% domain park.  In other worlds my system manages all of megalith in the
% megalith.miami.fl.us domain.  This means that any system which feeds off
% of me, will have an instant address of:
%
% site_name.megalith.miami.fl.us
%
%       So I have a system by name of damage, it now has a US domain
% address without having to register within the US Domain.  My System
% serves as the gateway.
%
%       Now the problem is that while testing out this new toy, I spelled
% damage wrong in the address.  I sent mail to:
%
% postmaster@damaeg.megalith.miami.fl.us
%
%       The mail was routed to my system properly, however once it got
% here, Rmail saw that damaeg is not a supported machine.  Instead of
% Bouncing the message back to the sender, it sent it back to my feed for
% further processing.  My feed in turn sent it back to my System.  My
% system then sent it back to my feed.  My feed sent it back to my System,
% etc....  Until of course I killed the controll bacth file because it was
% a waste of bandwith.  Is this a bug?  Is there a Way to bounce mail such
% as this and other more exotic things?

     I've been  told  that  when  you set up an entry in `uulib:domain' for
`*.megalith.miami.fl.us' pointing to your site, `rmail' would not sent this
back  but spool it for the system in question ... You may therefore write a
script  that  looks  for  jobs  for  systems  unknown  to you (e. g. not in
`uulib:L.sys')  and  bounces  them  (if it's email) or simply discards them
(e.  g.  news  and  other stuff). Dirty, but unless there's a sendmail that
takes  care  of  routing ...  (Ok, there *is* at least one sendmail that is
capable  of  acting  as  a  domain  gateway,  contact chris@wolfhh.hanse.de
(Christian Wolf) for further information.)

%       Also while I am at it, I was wondering.  UUCP has been around for
% quite some time.  I won't mention age, it may get upset at me.  Anyway,
% there have been more efficient protocols which have come out over time
% which are faster than UUCP. One such is Zmodem.  Knowing that UUCP stands
% for Unix to Unix Copy, will it ever be updated to incorporate any faster
% protocol besides g.  I mean with Zmodem at 14,400 I get 1800 CPS, why
% couldn't this be done with UUCP.  Are their proposals in UUCP land

     Well, with  `G' protocol (configured for 7 windows and 128 or 256 byte
packets)  I  get  about  1600  cps (compressed news or uuencoded mails) - I
tried  an  implementation  of  the `e' protocol, but except for HST-links I
won't recommend this.

% pending in some RFC or some such?  And what is this t protocol I have
% heard mention of which is used for HST's using UUCP? faster? Better?

     Dunno about  `t',  `e'  (in  short)  sends  the  whole file and gets a
checksum  back,  so  it  works  nice  on  HST connections; but despite it's
checksum, I lost several chars during my tests ...
			kai

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From: sgberg@charon.bloomington.in.us (Stefan G. Berg)
Subject: bms_err not used in BMS?
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