UUCP-over-TCP Vs Fetchmail

[Ganesh M <ganesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello list,

This is applicable in my case also. I 've been using fetchmail for a
very long time. But still I 've some probs.  

Prob 1.

The major problem is the mailing list users.  If anyone subscribes to
any mailing list, manually I 've to add the entry into the .procmailrc
file.

Prob 2.

If any one use "To:" field and "CC:" field while sending mail to
different persons in our domain, only the "CC:" ed address will get
the mail and not the "To:" addressed user. Eventhough  I 've used the
"^TO" entry in the .procmailrc file.

Any suggestion or solution for these two.

TIA
Regards
Ganesh 

On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Sridhar Iyengar wrote:

> We've been using fetchmail to transfer all our mails from our US office & it's
> been smooth sailing over dial-up as well as leased line. I plan to use the same
> mail retrieval mechanism on our ISDN line too. The configuration is very easy
> plus fetchmail gives u an option to set the timeout period to communicate with
> ur server. This can be useful if u're dealing with an unreliable line which
> disconnect fast. You can set a releastically higher timeout for fetchmail to do
> the job. One major reason for me to select fetchmail was that we had to retrieve
> mails from multiple domains in the US and redistribute it locally, resolve
> mail-aliases, handle multidrop mail accounts, etc. This was achived very easily
> using fetchmail + some sendmail ruleset tweaking. I use sendmail to redistribute
> the fetched mails locally.
> 
> There're a whole lot of other features too (checkout "man fetchmail") I haven't
> used UUCP, but I must admit that i'm pretty much happy with fetchmail.
> 
> -Sridhar
> 
> PS : Here's a quote from the uucp-1.06.1 online docs :
> "Unix-to-Unix Copy Program," said PDP-1. "You will never find a more wretched
> hive of bugs and flamers. We must be cautious."
>       ---DECWars
> 
> 
> Oommen Thomas wrote:
> 
> > We have been using UUCP over TCP for email transfer between our Madras
> > offices for quite sometime now without any problems.
> >
> > A few months back, when we opened an office at Pune, we had a similar
> > setup between our Pune and US servers. But to our surprise, we find
> > frequent timeout on a line which is very fast for FTP/HTTP - upto 41Kbps
> > on an ISDN line, which is good enough.
> >
> > As per my understanding after going thru the discussons on the Net and the
> > HOWTOs, UUCP over TCP uses the 't' protocol which does not have any
> > error-correction or flow control and expects a 8bit clean line and hence
> > is to  be used for reliable networks (like the Internet). So
> > synchronisation fails and retries may not be working (or not even
> > attempted at all).
> >
> > I know lot of people will say that UUCP is an outdated protocol, but pls
> > note that it has been (and is still) in use by very large/critical mail
> > servers around the world. But the problem is that it was not designed to
> > be used over the Internet (TCP) and hence some finetuning is required?
> >
> > My main question is :-
> > --------------------
> > How is fetchmail when compared to this?
> > Will it solve my problem and have the mails of local users collcetd from a
> > remote server which supports POP and viceversa (over SMTP) with no
> > timeouts?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Regards,                                              Imagine Technologies
> > Oommen                                           16, Shaffee Mohammed Road
> >                                                               Rutland Gate
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