Re: MiNT UUCP, cnews, etc

[Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>]

In article <9410241559.af03500@ncrhub1.ncr.com> you write:
>I've finally gotten totally fed up with running Hermes UUCP on a FAT
>partition (thanks to the bloody unstable GFA-BASIC uucico), and want (?)
>to go through the pain of getting UUCP software set up properly for MiNT.
>
>What I've got so far:
>
>* Taylor UUCP 1.05 (from prep.ai.mit.edu)
ok MiNT 1.11h2 diffs are here :) mail?

>* cnews (from wuarchive.wustl.edu)
i only have something for cnews-xt 1.3 (ftp.fu-berlin.de, or ask archie)
thats the one with automatic expire on low-space, rnews with built-in
zcat/gunzip/freeze -d... (haven't looked at the recent cleanup release yet)

>* elm 2.4 (from wuarchive)
>* trn (from wuarchive)
benni? :)  (and btw any news about strn?)

i have somewhat older diffs for elm 2.3... (still not got around
installing 2.4 yet but i've seen the binaries for ftp...)
>
>Am I missing something?  I have a feeling that I'm missing some sort of
>mail transport, but I have no idea.  :-(  I'm essentially a user when it
>comes to UUCP...

 yes you need something that elm, uuxqt etc. can call to mail you and
at least queue rmail jobs for outgoing stuff like e.g. smail, sendmail...
if you don't need real smtp or fancy header rewriting you can get away
with an old hack of smail 2.5 (thats what i use, `small is beautiful')
otherwise have a look at the latest smail 3.1.*, or maybe sendmail 8...
(what are others using?)

 more later i hope... *sigh* :)
	Juergen