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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers UUCP HELP for a desperate new user Post 302988611 by Bell02 on Thursday 29th of December 2016 12:41:42 PM
Old 12-29-2016
Error UUCP HELP for a desperate new user

Hello,

I have a unique situation where I must pass along critical & time-sensitive emails to a group of seven different people. Every person with whom I communicate EXCEPT ONE uses a standard IP based ".com" email address. The one exception is a gentleman who will NOT budge and create a standard email account. He's a little on the conspiracy nut list because he believes that his information is too precious to trust to IP routing protocols. He may be right...but it's a pain in rear.

All I am trying to do is to setup a means to communicate with a single UUCP user on a regular basis. I am primarily a PC user and a LINUX via Raspberry Pi user. I have no experience with UNIX whatsoever but am more than willing to learn and get my feet wet.

I have the user's bang address...I just need help (from step one) on setting up (as simple as possible) a UUCP email communication method using Windows, Linux, or some type of UNIX emulator/standalone program. Any help for this Unix rookie would be greatly appreciated.


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uupath(1)						      General Commands Manual							 uupath(1)

NAME
uupath, mkuupath - access and manage the pathalias database SYNOPSIS
pathsfile] mailaddress pathsfile DESCRIPTION
The commands, including and are targeted for removal from HP-UX; see the below. provides electronic message routing by expanding a simple UUCP address into a full UUCP path (see uucp(1)). For example, could be expanded into expands an address by parsing mailaddress for the dominant host (see below) and looking up the host in the appropriate database (see pathalias(1)). If the host is found in the database, the expanded address is written to the standard output. If the host is not found, writes the original address to the standard output and returns an exit status of 1. expects mailaddress to be in UUCP format (hostor ARPANET format (user@host). The option opens the database based on pathsfile rather than the default database based on This database must be a database created by con- sisting of the two files and The dominant host is the left-most UUCP host in mailaddress. If no UUCP host is found (no is in the address), assumes that the address is in the simple ARPANET format user@host. If the address does not match either format, writes the original address to the standard output and returns an exit status of 1. constructs a mail routing database by using the pathsfile data file obtained from (see pathalias(1)). as input. The recommended pathsfile location is because this is the default database used by The database files and are created by If these files already exist, they must be removed prior to running The option specifies verbose mode, which writes a line to the standard output for each entry written to the database. DIAGNOSTICS
returns an exit status of 1 and writes the original mailaddress to the standard output if the address is not found or is incorrectly for- matted. returns an exit status of 2 and prints a diagnostic message if the database files are not accessible, or if improper parameters are given. Otherwise, returns an exit status of 0. If the database files and already exist prior to running the message is displayed. These files must be removed before running WARNINGS
Use of commands, including and is discouraged because they are targeted for removal from HP-UX. Use ftp(1) or rcp(1) instead. AUTHOR
was developed by University of California, Berkeley. FILES
SEE ALSO
pathalias(1), uucp(1). TO BE OBSOLETED uupath(1)
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