Re: your mail

[Greg Kintz <gakintz at pobox.com>]

Brian,

In order to interface uucp with something like Exchange server, would it be
possible to have a separate Unix box that runs uucp on the network? When
mail is received, uucp hands off the mail to Exim which sends the mail via
smtp to the Exchange server. It seems like Exim could be set up to handle
this. Also, mail sent from Exchange via smtp would be directed back to uucp
for storage until the next uucp connection. A P100 or 486 could be set up to
handle the uucp connections.

Zeimm, we can help with uucp side of things.

Greg
LINGO Net

on 5/29/01 8:50, Brian Candler at B.Candler at pobox.com wrote:

> On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:42:25AM +0400, Zeimm Auladin wrote:
>> I'm Zeimm, from Mauritius. I hope u remember me :)
> 
> Certainly do :-)
> 
>> I have installed an exim mail server and am using qmail pop3 on it. I
>> tested it and it works fine. I now have to make a proposal for a customer
>> who wants us to store and relay his email for him. He will connect
>> periodically to download and send mail as he cannot afford to have a
>> permanent internet connection. He has a mail server on the
>> What is the best architecture we could use for  that system? We talked
>> about UUCP during the workshop but Brian mentioned that it was outdated.
> 
> Well, it's outdated for those places which have full Internet connectivity.
> But as a way for storing E-mail for a whole domain and pulling it down
> periodically, it does the job very well - much better than POP3 in fact,
> since POP3 does not have a standard way of preserving the envelope
> information.
> 
> As long as your customer's server has UUCP (which includes almost any
> version of Unix) then I'd say it's a good way to go. The 'native' method is
> to dial up directly to a UUCP mail server, but you can also do UUCP over
> TCP/IP, e.g. over a PPP dialup. In the latter case you may have to write
> some scripts to do the PPP dial, run uucico, then hang up PPP - or configure
> PPP dial-on-demand. There is at least one person on this list I know who
> runs a network like this.
> 
> If the customer's mail server is not Unix then you might have some
> difficulty finding UUCP software for it. There are a number of DOS/Windows
> implementations (e.g. UUPC is free) but integrating it with (say) an
> Exchange server is the hard part.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Brian.
> 
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