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From: smoot@cs.utexas.edu (Smoot Carl-Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: austin.ibm.com
Keywords: IBM Austin Internet !
Message-ID: <15048@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 25 Nov 90 05:34:20 GMT
References: <14941@cs.utexas.edu> <31914@ditka.UUCP> <1990Nov24.175319.26238@turnkey.tcc.com>
Organization: Dept of Computer Sciences, UTexas, Austin
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In article <1990Nov24.175319.26238@turnkey.tcc.com> jackv@turnkey.TCC.COM (Jack F. Vogel) writes:
>You are correct about the RT, its sendmail is very old and does not have
>MX support. Sendmail on the 6000, however definitely does have MX, even
>though it is still based on the old code. AIX 1.2 (that's 370 and PS/2)
>as of a couple of updates back has a pure 5.61 port that I did. Don't
>know if the 6000 folk will pick that up or not.
Which is silly, since I ported a reasonably up to date version of sendmail with
MX support to an old RT and used it successfully as a mail gateway, until it
was replaced by a Sun.  Really was not that hard to do.

Maybe someone will do the same with the IDA Sendmail code, so RS6000 users
will have a reasonable implementation.
-- 
Smoot Carl-Mitchell, Texas Internet Consulting
smoot@tic.com, smoot@cs.utexas.edu