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From: cwitty@csli.Stanford.EDU (Carl Witty)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Re: Interfacing WP, AMDS with other mailers
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Date: 2 Aug 90 22:01:01 GMT
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In-reply-to: Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM's message of 2 Aug 90 13:37:08 GMT

In article <oai2m4=0BwwO9BgFAs@transarc.com> Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM writes:
   Interfacing AMDS with MH shouldn't be difficult, should it?  Where does
   MH expect to get its mail--is it still /usr/spool/mail/userid, or does
   it expect that mail can arrive as separate messages in
   $HOME/some-directory?  Maybe you could set your site so that its default
   location for AMDS-delivered mail is $HOME/Mail/inbox (or whatever).  You
   should be able to do this by changing the AndrewSetup (or mailconf.c)
   variable ``MailboxName''.  Is that sufficient?

No, MH wants all its mail to be in one file (although the maildrop can
be one file in the user's home directory.)  Even if MH could be made
to work relatively easily, that still leaves all the other mailers
that people here use and don't want to change from.

   Nathaniel already mentioned nntppoll/nns as a mechanism for maintaining
   NetNews in a tree of AMDS folders.

Yes; but I want NNTP clients and messageserver clients to be able to
access the same news tree, which (I believe) isn't currently
supported.  (There is an option to allow the messageserver to access
hierarchies that aren't in AMS format, but it's marked as "not
well-tested".  Besides, the AMS format is richer, it seems, than the
/usr/spool/news format, so I'd like to use it.)

Thank you,

Carl Witty