UUCP Support

The mc configuration technique includes four UUCP options to choose from. They are listed in Table 17-5.

Table 17-5. UUCP support

Relay

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Versions

Description

LOCAL_UUCP

The LOCAL_UUCP mc Macro on page 609

V8.13 and later

Add new rules and rule sets to select a UUCP delivery agent

SITE

SITE mc Macro (Obsolete) on page 609

V8.1 and later

Declare sites for SITECONFIG (obsolete)

SITECONFIG

SITECONFIG mc Macro (Obsolete) on page 609

V8.1 and later

Local UUCP connections (obsolete)

UUCP_RELAY

UUCP_RELAY mc Macro on page 606

V8.1 and later

The UUCP relay

UUCPSMTP

UUCPSMTP mc Macro on page 610

V8.1 and later

Individual UUCP-to-network translations

Note that two items in the table are marked as obsolete. This is because all their functions have been moved into the FEATURE(mailertable) (FEATURE(mailertable) on page 629). They are included for backward compatibility with early configuration file versions.

Support for UUCP can be included in your mc file with the MAILER command:

MAILER(`uucp')

This declares six[239] delivery agents and the rules to support them. They are listed in Table 17-6.

Table 17-6. UUCP delivery agents

Agent

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Versions

Description

uucp-old

uucp-old (a.k.a. uucp) on page 608

V8.6 and later

Old-style, all ! form of UUCP

uucp

uucp-old (a.k.a. uucp) on page 608

V8.1 and later

Synonym for the above (obsolete)

uucp-new

uucp-new (a.k.a. suucp) on page 608

V8.6 and later

Old-style with multiple recipients

suucp

uucp-new (a.k.a. ...

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