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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/KT)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with MMDF and UUCP mail
Message-ID: <1990Sep17.165259.26988@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 17 Sep 90 16:52:59 GMT
References: <7927@gollum.twg.com> <74@raysnec.UUCP> <1990Sep15.212508.11866@robobar.co.uk>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/KT)
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Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <1990Sep15.212508.11866@robobar.co.uk> by ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo):
+---------------
| In article <74@raysnec.UUCP> shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) writes:
| > Tell us another one, David! (Nothing personal... David *did* try to help
| > solve *our* problem.) The "officially supported" MMDF II found in SCO UNIX
| > (we have ODT 1.0) on our system remains truly unreliable.
| 
| Yup, it's certainly not David's fault -- I think he's even given SCO free help
| -- the world needs more DSHs, but then this *is* the first time
| SCO have done anything with MMDF, and I would argue that when they get it
| right, it will prove to have been the right choice.
+---------------

In the meantime: I used that little patch to disable security (c2 -> d) and
then dropped MMDF II #43 into place.  It works fine, as does MH 6.7 which I
installed afterward (with a small hack, pending a response from comp.mail.mh
on a small anomaly I found using the mmdf2 MTS).  (Well, MH 6.7 works almost
fine; I still get core dumps when I use a repl filter, and vmh loves to dump
core, but vmh has never worked under System V and repl filters screw up on the
ACS-1000 using "sendmail/smtp" MTS (actually using a small program that speaks
SMTP and interfaces with smail).)

I STRONGLY recommend FTP'ing MMDF II #43 from louie.udel.edu, if only to get
the manuals.  SCO left most of them out, which makes it really difficult to
configure a working system.

For anyone who wants to install MMDF on SCO UNIX, I can provide the various
configuration files that I used.  I can also provide a small patch to one of
the rcvdir programs that enables it to work with SCO's setuid-"terminal" tty
mechanism; but this is trivial, as the code necessary is already in place.
(4.3BSD uses the same method.)

++Brandon
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