When mail is to be sent from your machine to another machine via UUCP,
the mail delivery agent will invoke uux. It will generally run a
command such as `uux - system!rmail address', where
system is the remote system to which the mail is being sent. It
may pass other options to uux, such as `-r' or `-g'
(see section Invoking uux).
The news system also invokes uux in order to transfer articles to
another system. The only difference is that news will use uux to
invoke rnews on the remote system, rather than rmail.
You should arrange for your mail and news systems to invoke the Taylor
UUCP version of uux. If you only have Taylor UUCP, or if you
simply replace any existing version of uux with the Taylor UUCP
version, this will probably happen automatically. However, if you have
two UUCP packages installed on your system, you will probably have to
modify the mail and news configuration files in some way.
Actually, if both the system UUCP and Taylor UUCP are using the same
spool directory format, the system uux will probably work fine
with the Taylor uucico (the reverse is not the case: the Taylor
uux requires the Taylor uucico). However, data transfer
will be somewhat more efficient if the Taylor uux is used.
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