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From: weiner@novavax.UUCP (Bob Weiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Apollo should use sendmail internally
Message-ID: <1547@novavax.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 89 21:24:11 GMT
Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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   markg@CAEN.ENGIN.UMICH.EDU (Mark Giuffrida) writes:

   Since the vendor, Apollo, doesn't use sendmail internally, they are not
   likely to even see the problem.  Your only recourse here is to do what
   we did and thats to make the modifications to
   /usr/lib/sendmail,/bin/mail,/usr/ucb/mail yourselfs.

Mark brings up a good point, which I am fairly sure is true to a large
extent (that is some internal Apollo users may use sendmail which will
gateway to DPSS mail).

As long as Apollo's major e-mail network is based on a proprietary
solution, they will not have a solid testbed from which to make mail
facilities work for large networks.  (Note that there is little
information coming from Apollo as to the status of their X.400 mail
product, but since they have not released one yet, they are behind a
number of other vendors.)

I imagine the linkage to HP's large e-mail network will drive Apollo
toward more standard e-mail facilities anyway, but I think the point
should be made that Apollo needs a decent size network internally on
which to stress test all of its products that are network-based.
-- 
Bob Weiner, Motorola, Inc.,   USENET:  ...!gatech!uflorida!novavax!weiner
(407) 738-2087