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Has anyone else used UUCP on the go?

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Hey all, I wanted to know if anyone else has this use case that I used 
UUCP for.

For a while I had a WWAN card in one of my ThinkPads, and so I was able to 
have internet on the go (but not all the time due to poor service). On 
said ThinkPad, I had installed Postfix and UUCP to run a local mail 
server, which would then go out to a cheap $5 Contabo VPS I rented, which 
would DKIM sign the email and then send it out (also worked inbound too of 
course).

I'm curious as to if anyone else used UUCP for this purpose. I like the 
delay-tolerant networking and the polling style, because it means that not 
everyone has to have a well-known address or always-online machine, only 
the gateway does.

Basically: It was perfect for my setup.

I haven't touched the laptop that it was set up on in a while. (I only had 
a few trivial things connected to the emails under its domain.)
That's why I used past tense.

Anyways, I'm curious to see what uses anyone else has used for UUCP on 
their own machines.

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Molly A. McCollum
mam@SDF.org

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Has anyone else used UUCP on the go? "Molly A. McCollum" <mam@sdf.org> - 2024-06-09 05:17 -0400
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