Re: UUCP "rmail" Program

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• Subject: Re: UUCP "rmail" Program
• From: fdc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Frank D. Cringle)
• Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 11:56:44 +0200
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Mark Delany <markd@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>So, what to do about inbound ! addresses from uucp? You could try the perl 
>rmail program we developed to deal with this. It parses ! addresses, applies 
>a number of simple pattern matching rules to convert them to FQDN addresses 
>and injects them into qmail. Since the pattern matching rules are nothing 
>more than perl REs defined in an external file you can tailor them to suit 
>pretty much any sort of wierdo inbound addresses.
>
>The URL is: ftp://ftp.mira.net.au/unix/mail/qmail/rmail-0.1.tar.gz
>and the tarball is about 5K in size.
>
>We have used it for a number of months and I gather a number of other 
>qmailer-types have also used it, but I don't know how extensively.

We use it at ping.de.  Thanks Mark!

Ping.de handles mail for about 900 private sites, and a significant
proportion of them transfer mail via UUCP.

The only generally applicable changes I made in the script were to
insert
  $SIG{PIPE} = 'IGNORE';
ahead of the call to fork_sendmail() and to replace "exit($?)" with
"exit($?>>8)".

-- 
Frank Cringle,      fdc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
voice: (+49 2304) 467101; fax: 943357

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