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In article <22854@optima.cs.arizona.edu> kline@cs.arizona.edu (Nick Kline) writes:
>In article <1992Sep14.124038.13456@sinix.UUCP> dhg@sinix.UUCP (David Griffith) writes:
>||I am currently using UUCP for mail and news. My host name is "prim".
>||I have just set up a SLIP Internet connection with a host called
>||"demon.co.uk". I would like to seamlessly switch over to using the
>||Internet for my mail and news while still being able to _receive_
>||mail and news queued up on the UUCP link. Does anyone have a simple
>||list of the steps required? I noticed that when I finally established
>||my first SLIP connection some mail appeared in the uucp log addressed
>||to "prim.demon.co.uk!postmaster" - this mail never found it's way to
>||my machines postmaster (root), presumably because it was looking for
>||a hostname "prim.demon.co.uk" instead of "prim"? I don't want to
>||change the hostname and mess up my current uucp link.
>||
>||Thanks for any help,
>||
>||Dave Griffiths
>
>Hi, I tried to reply to this but my mail bounced.
>
>Did you get help to make it work?
>
>I am in this situation right now.  

I figured out how to do it eventually (at least for mail). I copied
/etc/sendmail/sendmail.subsidiary.cf to /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf. Seeing
a reference to DRmailhost, and having no alias for mailhost, I tried
setting this field directly, either to the host name or the Internet address -
bad move! Screwed me up for ages. It must be set up with NetInfoManager.
NeXT Answers mail.444 describes the steps required (although they must be
talking about the 1.0 version of NetInfoManager 'cos it doesn't work quite
as described). I also changed the line in sendmail.cf Dj$?m $w.$m $| $w $. to
get rid of the spaces. Don't know why, but lots of people seem to do this.

I changed the Local Configuration in NetManager exactly as described in
Louis Mamakos's SLIP manual.

Now mail was going out on the Internet OK, but incoming mail addressed to
dave@prim.demon.co.uk disappeared into a black hole. It turned out that
this required the creation of a file called /etc/resolv.conf whose contents
were:

domain demon.co.uk

You have to reboot and then everything works OK. Now I'm trying to figure
out how to set up news over the Internet. It appears that I have to set
up an nntp client. I've got the source for nntp.1.5.11 but the installation
looks a lot trickier than that for C-News (anyone out there got a working
conf.h?). If anyone's got nntp running over SLIP in batch mode and interfacing
to C-News, how about putting a copy on the archives?

Dave Griffiths