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Using UUCP for Mail and News.
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   Taylor UUCP does not include a mail package.  All Unix systems come
with some sort of mail delivery agent, typically `sendmail' or `MMDF'.
Source code is available for some alternative mail delivery agents,
such as `IDA sendmail' and `smail'.

   Taylor UUCP also does not include a news package.  The two major Unix
news packages are `C-news' and `INN'.  Both are available in source
code form.

   Configuring and using mail delivery agents is a notoriously complex
topic, and I will not be discussing it here.  Configuring news systems
is usually simpler, but I will not be discussing that either.  I will
merely describe the interactions between the mail and news systems and
UUCP.

   A mail or news system interacts with UUCP in two ways: sending and
receiving.

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