Need help with uucp or mmdf screwup

Andrew A. Burgess aab at cichlid.com
Sat Aug 4 06:52:50 AEST 1990



OS: SCO UNIX 3.2

This morning I noticed that I had apparently received mail from
my uunet uucp connection.

uulog | tail said:

uucp uunet  (8/2-23:30:53,5504,0) SUCCEEDED (call to uunet )
uucp uunet  (8/2-23:31:11,5504,0) OK (startup ttyFM01)
... my outgoing mail deleted...
uucp uunet  (8/2-23:31:32,5504,4) REMOTE REQUESTED (uunet!D.uunetBYWN2 --> cichlid!D.uunetSYWN2 (daemon))
uucp uunet  (8/2-23:31:38,5504,5) REMOTE REQUESTED (uunet!D.uunetXYWN0 --> cichlid!X.uunetCYWN3 (daemon))
uucp uunet  (8/2-23:31:41,5504,6) REMOTE REQUESTED (uunet!D.uunetBZIG2 --> cichlid!D.uunetSZIG2 (daemon))
uucp uunet  (8/2-23:31:46,5504,7) REMOTE REQUESTED (uunet!D.uunetXZIG0 --> cichlid!X.uunetCZIG3 (daemon))
uucp uunet  (8/2-23:31:51,5504,8) OK (conversation complete ttyFM01 107)

However, no mail was to be found! 
The files in /usr/spool/mail were all empty. 
The directory /usr/spool/uucp/uunet was empty.
There were no new files in /usr/spool/uucppublic.
I am the only user of this machine.

Questions:

0. Does this look like incoming mail? I have no news feed from uunet. Note that
the sending user is daemon.

1. Is this an mmdf screwup? I seem to recall some flaming of mmdf.

2. If yes, what should I replace mmdf with? I can get smail and sendmail from
uunet. Will these replace mmdf?

3. Is there any way to recover this mail if it was mail?

Other comments?

Thank you

Andy

-- 
Andy Burgess
Consulting Software Engineer
uunet!silma!cichlid!aab
aab at cichlid.com



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