Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!ucbvax!THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM!nsb From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Interfacing WP, AMDS with other mailers Message-ID: Date: 2 Aug 90 11:53:18 GMT References: <14766@csli.Stanford.EDU> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 23 Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 2-Aug-90 Interfacing WP, AMDS with o.. Carl Witty@eos.arc.nasa. (1262) > 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? This program is called "nntppoll" and is included in the Andrew distribution. Also of possible interest to heterogeneous sites with Andrew users: I will also soon be making public a set of patches that will make it possible to read Andrew-format multimedia mail with any common UNIX mail reader running under X11 . If you're running one of these mail readers (which include Berkeley mail, MH, XMH, Elm, 2 Gnumacs mailers, and others) and you read a "Content-type: X-BE2" (Andrew format) message, they will open up an ez window to show you the message in full multimedia glory. These patches (typically 20 to 30 lines of code for each mail reader, always localized to a single source file) are currently being tested at Bellcore. After they've been tested & the patch document clears Bellcore's legal department, I'll publish it for anyone who might find it useful.