uucp + email...

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003, Tuc wrote:
>>   Has anyone had any experience with getting email that has been stored on
>> a remote machine via uucp?  I have a friend who held my email while my
>> server is down.  He cannot re-que it up, so I need to find a way to uucp
>> down load it via the net.   Any help would be appreciated!  Thanks..
>> 
>	Ok, I'll admit it, I'm a dinosaur. I collect my mail via UUCP. But
>what queue did he store it in when it went down? He would have had to 
>specifically said you were a UUCP host when he started. Otherwise, contact 
>me off list if you need UUCP help, I even have it going over Stunnel.

I'll admit to being a dinosaur as well, at least to the extent that we
still support uucp dialup customers, and I configure our clients on cable
connections to send/receive their e-mail through our servers using uucp
over tcp.  Sometimes the old protocols are exactly what the doctor ordered.

My main question is whether the mail got dumped out of the queue on the
remote uucp host or on his machine locally?  The uuclean routines on most
uucp hosts nukes expired messages completely, and doesn't move it to
another directory where it can be retrieved.

The Taylor uucp contrib directory has an old uureroute script that I wrote
years ago that can be used to go through uucp queues to remail messages
where delivery methods have changed.

Bill
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