Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ukma!david
From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Mail interfaces for Ultrix
Message-ID: <11945@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 89 22:32:24 GMT
References: <1697@ucqais.uc.edu>
Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article <1697@ucqais.uc.edu> rainwatr@ucqais.uc.edu (Donald J. Rainwater) writes:
>	Can anyone recommend any mail-handling packages for Ultrix?  I have
>a copy of MMDFII, Release B (from 1986) - is this package worth using?  

er... yes

>Is
>there a more recent version?

Yes.  There's a bunch of patches files, 37 right now soon to be quite a
few more as soon as I finish this batch, ftp'able from sh.cs.net.  It
works fine on Ultrix.

>I've also heard that there is something called
>MH 6.6.  How do these packages compare?  Where can I get them?  Is there
>something better?

They don't really.  MH is a mail User Agent and MMDF is a Mail Transfer
Agent.  MMDF compares to sendmail and is, I feel, easier to configure
and overall a nicer system.  MH compares to ucbmail/Mail/mail that comes
with the system and I don't use either one so I won't say anything.  MH
is meant more for someone who gets a *LOT* of mail and wants a way to
conveniently arrange the mail.

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