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UUCP Transport - getting the mail to/from Internet

(First time setup - step 7)

Assuming you can send mail from your clients now, send a couple of E-mails to someone outside. Watch the Mailcoach Outbox, this should contain these mails almost immediately after you sent them. This is the queue for mail to be transferred to the Internet.

1. To manually start the transport, select the File menu - UUCP Mail transport now!

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2. Mailcoach now tries to:
- connect to your ISP
- login using the script
- send any mail queued in the Outbox
- receive any mail queued at the ISP.
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It’s not unusual that this step fails the first time - there are a number of configurations you have done, and if one is wrong, the transport may fail. If this is the case, remember that you activated logs under the System setup. Now is the time to study these logs to find out why this step failed.

The logs that are important is first of all uucp.log, in this you can see if it connects to the correct phone number, and also give a hint on where a problem may exist. Next is the script.log. This log shows you the login steps using the script you selected or created. It will tell you if it fails, and often what the remote host wanted and didn’t get. Last is the serial.log. (former com.log) This log shows every single character sent and received, as plain text and in hexadecimal format. This log is messy to follow but shows every detail.

See the Reference section System setup and the logging tab for more details about logs.