From: MERC::"uunet!WKUVX1.BITNET!list-mgr" 30-APR-1993 03:11:01.83 To: MX-List@WKUVX1.BITNET CC: Subj: Re: MX playing tennis with DECUS UUCP - why? In article <1993Apr26.160141.81@centurylub.com>, wortman@centurylub.com (Bret D. Wortman: WordMan) writes: > I just installed MX031 and have followed all the installation > instructions, including post-install. > > My question is this: Outgoing and incoming mail all seems to bounce > between MX and DECUS UUCP. Example: > >>From decus.org!USERNAME Mon, 26 Apr 93 15:48:21 CDT remote from centlub >>Received: by centurylub.com (DECUS UUCP /2.0/2.0/2.0/); >> Mon, 26 Apr 93 15:48:21 CDT >>Received: from centlub by centurylub.com (MX V3.1B) with UUCP; Mon, 26 Apr 1993 >> 15:45:12 CDT >>Received: by centurylub.com (DECUS UUCP /2.0/2.0/2.0/); Mon, 26 Apr 93 15:41:22 >> CDT >>Received: from centlub by centurylub.com (MX V3.1B) with UUCP; Mon, 26 Apr 1993 >> 15:41:20 CDT >>Received: by centurylub.com (DECUS UUCP /2.0/2.0/2.0/); Mon, 26 Apr 93 15:15:40 >> CDT >>Received: by centurylub.com (MX V3.1B) with UUCP; Mon, 26 Apr 1993 14:53:24 CDT >>Received: from Topaz.DECUS.ORG by uu6.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.071791-PSI/PSINet) via >> SMTP; id AA18561 for WORTMAN; Mon, 26 Apr 93 15:37:13 -0400 >>Received: from mr.decus.org by DECUS.Org (PMDF #2354 ) id >> <01GXGZT4FMCI8ZFKWH@DECUS.Org>; Mon, 26 Apr 1993 15:25:08 EDT >>Received: with PMDF-MR; Mon, 26 Apr 1993 15:05:36 EDT > > So what's up? This was an incoming message (username changed to > protect the guilty), and I can't figure out why no one wants to deliver > it. > > The UUXQT process appears to just stop whenever I start MX, it logs > nothing to UUCP.LOG, not even a "job scan" message. > > What am I doing wrong? This happened to me the first time I ran MX too. You don't have your paths defined right. It is necessary to tell MX what the local names are. In MCP, do a "define path" for each alias of the local node. In my case, it is: define path tachyon.com local define path tachyon.lonestar.org local define path tachyon local define path * uucp The more explicit names should precede the more general, i.e. "tachyon.com" should come before "tachyon". The MCP "sho path" should look like this when you're through. Domain-to-path mappings: Domain="TACHYON.COM", Path=Local Domain="TACHYON.LONESTAR.ORG", Path=Local Domain="TACHYON", Path=Local Domain="*", Path=UUCP It may not look like this at first, because the initial configuration puts "*" on the list automatically. Then your defined paths come after that. Since the paths are scanned in order, the "*" will prevent the local names from being seen. If it looks like this, it's not going to work. Domain-to-path mappings: Domain="*", Path=UUCP Domain="TACHYON.COM", Path=Local Domain="TACHYON.LONESTAR.ORG", Path=Local Domain="TACHYON", Path=Local Therefore you have to delete the "*" path (with "remove path"), then redefine it. That will put it at the end of the list where it belongs, as in the first display above. > > > WordMan > > BTW, is there a mailserver somewhere that has the new MX on it? My > site has a dialup connection only, so FTP isn't available. Thanx. Hunter is working on MX 3.3, but the most recent *released* MX is 3.2. Send the following in the body of a mail message to fileserv@wkuvx1.bitnet: send mx032 send fileserv_tools fileserv_tools is needed if you don't have mftu or unzip. Be warned, mx032 has 91 parts. > -- > _______________________________________________________________________________ _ > Bret D. Wortman __ __ ____ __ Century Lubricants Co. Wayne -- ============================================================================== Wayne Sewell |INET: wayne@tachyon.com Tachyon Software Consulting |UUCP: uupsi!uupsi6!tachyon!wayne P. O. Box 550937, Dallas TX 75355-0937 |Voice: (214)-553-9760, Fax: -553-0077 ============================================================================== "Them boys ain't drugged. They's just stupid."