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From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Problems with MMDF and UUCP mail
Message-ID: <74@raysnec.UUCP>
Date: 14 Sep 90 15:50:39 GMT
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david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes:

>-- There is a generally low opinion of MMDF which, as far as I can tell,
>   derives from Olden Days when MMDF was truly buggy.  Nowadays it is very
>   unbuggy, except in the documentation which is a bit lacking (sigh) ..
>   at any rate the rep isn't quite deserved.

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. The supplied
documentation helps not at all in decyphering the logging and error messages.
Indeed, the only mail handled reliably here is that handled by our parallel
mailer (FXmail).