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From: cwitty@csli.Stanford.EDU (Carl Witty)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Interfacing WP, AMDS with other mailers
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Date: 2 Aug 90 04:04:51 GMT
Sender: cwitty@csli.Stanford.EDU (Carl Witty)
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Recently there's been some discussion on how to use the Andrew mailers
with systems that don't use AMDS.  We've got the opposite problem
here.

We like the fuzzy name matching provided by WP, and the reliability
and convenience of AMDS, but convincing everybody to use the Andrew
user interfaces just isn't practical--people are too attached to their
own favorites.  Has anybody dealt with this problem?

We're thinking of writing a program which collects mail from ~/Mailbox
and puts it in a mbox-format file for the mailer to read; it should
then be a (relatively) easy task to modify the existing mailers to
process this file as they would have processed /usr/spool/mail.  (This
is the opposite of eatmail; should it be called regurgitatemail?)

Also, it would be nice to keep our news tree in AMS format, for people
who do use the Andrew mailers.  Most newsreaders nowadays use NNTP, so
we could support those newsreaders by writing an NNTP daemon.

Has anybody written either of these programs?  Any suggestions or
comments?

Thank you.

Carl Witty
cwitty@cs.stanford.edu

(P.S.  I discovered why the Andrew dynamic loading wasn't working for
me--I needed to compile with -Bstatic.  Shouldn't there be a warning
about this in README, in *REAL BIG PRINT*?)