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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Anyone written a mail-server in perl?.
Message-ID: <3962@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 4 Oct 90 15:15:44 GMT
References: <1990Sep26.024048.1757@hades.ausonics.oz.au>
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Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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In-reply-to: greyham@hades.ausonics.oz.au (Greyham Stoney)

>>>>> In article <1990Sep26.024048.1757@hades.ausonics.oz.au>,
>>>>> greyham@hades.ausonics.oz.au (Greyham Stoney) (GS) writes:

GS> Perl looks like a totally awesome language to write a mail-server in;
GS> has anyone tried doing it?. If so, could they send me a copy please?.
GS> It doesn't need to be a polished work; anything will do.

Ours (originally the mutihouse mail server) is written in perl. You can get
it from our mail server or by FTP. The one I use is a more elaborate one
than the one in the archive. If interested write me personally for a copy.

How to get mailserv.tar.Z from the archive at
	Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University:

NOTE: In the following I have assumed your mail address is john@highbrow.edu.

    Of course you must substitute your own address for this. This should be
    a valid internet or uucp address. For bitnet users name@host.BITNET
    usually works.  

by FTP: (please restrict access to weekends or evening/night (i.e. between
about 20.00 and 0900 UTC).

    ftp archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]
    user name: anonymous or ftp
    password: your own email address (e.g. john@highbrow.edu)
    cd /pub
    don't forget to set binary mode if the file is a tar/arc/zoo archive,
    compressed or in any other way contains binary data.
    get UNIX/mailserv.tar.Z

by mail-server:

send the following message to
mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (or uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf):

    begin
    path john@highbrow.edu
    send UNIX/mailserv.tar.Z
    end

The path command can be deleted if we receive a valid from address in your
message. If this is the first time you use our mail server, we suggest you
first issue the request:
    send HELP
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Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University,
Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Telephone: +31 30 531806   Uucp:   uunet!mcsun!ruuinf!piet
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