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added a document that describes UUCP relevant stuff I'm not familiar with UUCP, so I hope the information is correct

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1 This document includes UUCP related information

3 Note: My knowledge of UUCP setups is very poor. I hope that the

4 provided information is correct. Improvements to this document

5 are very welcome. --meillo

7 UUCP setups call the MTA as `rmail'. Until version 0.2.23 masqmail

8 could be called with this name. It switched to read-message-from-stdin

9 mode then. AFAIK this is not enough to support UUCP, at least not at

10 the level that is presumed by UUCP software. It seems as if at least

11 the first input line should be handled special as it includes the

12 envelope recipient. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)

14 A better, through still basic approach, was introduced with 0.2.24:

15 misc/rmail is a small shell script (taken from postfix), which calls

16 masqmail with appropriate options. Copy the script into your path and

17 ensure that the included sendmail variable points to the masqmail

18 executable.

20 A more sophisticated rmail implementation seems to be available from

21 sendmail. I don't know details about it and whether it is needed. The

22 difference of sendmail's rmail implementation could be related to

23 address rewriting (user@example.org <-> org!example!user). But I

24 don't know details -- if you do, please let me know.

27 UUCP makes use of the -f (set return path address, i.e. from whom the

28 mail is) option of masqmail which is only permitted for user root,

29 the trusted user (usually `mail'), and the trusted group (often group

30 `mail'). UUCP, however, usually runs as user and group `uucp'.

32 Masqmail currently supports only one trusted group and it is planned

33 to remain so for simplicity reasons. (If you have good arguments on

34 the case, try to convince me of the opposite.) Therefore the solution

35 for masqmail is to add the user `uucp' to the trusted group (often

36 group `mail'):

38 usermod -G mail -a uucp

40 This is not the perfect solution but an acceptable trade-off.

43 If one really needs to enable user `uucp' to set -f but can not add

44 it to the trusted group, see the comment in is_privileged_user() in

45 permissions.c. It shows a hack which allows to trust another group,

46 for instance the group `uucp'.

49 See [1] for reasons why -f is important and needed.

51 [1] http://bugs.hylafax.org/show_bug.cgi?id=842

54 meillo