Q:  UUCP is complaining about my mail missing newlines and mail is bouncing.  What can I do?

A:  If the bounced mail has errors like the example below, the problem can be fixed by editing your UUCP mailer specification in your sendmail.cf.

> From @scapa.cs.ubert.ca:me@uaneuro Thu Jun  6 11:32:04 1991
> Message-Id: <9106061732.AA10617@namao.ucs.ubert.ca>
> Date:  Thu, 6 Jun 1991 12:34:01 -0600
> Illegal-Object: Syntax error in From: address found on scapa.cs.ubert.ca:
>  From: uaneuro!me (My Account)
>            ^-missing newline (LF)
> Illegal-Object: Syntax error in Message-Id: value found on scapa.cs.ubert.ca:
>  Message-Id: <9106061834.AA00160@uaneuro>
>           ^-missing newline (LF)
> Illegal-Object: Syntax error in To: address found on scapa.cs.ubert.ca:
>  To: namao.ucs.ubert.ca!thorjman
>            ^-missing newline (LF)
> From: me@uaneuro.uucp
> To: thorjman@namao.ucs.ubert.ca
> Subject: test 2 (non-NeXT)

The fix is to add a new definition of the end of line character to the UUCP mailer definition.  Add the text shown in bold to the sendmail.cf file in use on your uucp mail hub machine.

############################################################
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#####  UUCP Mailer specification
#####
Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=msDFMhuU, S=13, R=23, E=\n,
A=uux - -r $h!rmail ($u)

QA839

Valid for 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1