Re: Incoming mail being spooled instead of delivered

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From: Arno Eigenwillig
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 21:16

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In article <dave.0848@ccom.co.nz>, David Eaves writes:

> I have recently noticed that our incoming mail is being spooled before
> being delivered.

This is because modern Unix UUCPs tend to deliver mails to their
destination with the site name still in the envelope address.
Therefore, AmigaUUCP's sendmail first regards the mail as to be
delivered to a site and delivers it to its own site, then is invoked
again and delivers it to a mailfolder. This behaviour is broken as
designed.

The solution is to switch to another MTA like ASMail, but question is
whether it is worth the effort. ASMail can certainly do a lot more
than UUCP's sendmail, but it may be overdone in your case.

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From: arno@yaps.rhein.de (Arno Eigenwillig)
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Subject: Re: Incoming mail being spooled instead of delivered
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Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 22:16:47 +0100
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