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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: MH 6.7 From: attribute problems
Message-ID: <1991Jan11.011641.12059@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 11 Jan 91 01:16:41 GMT
References: <9101070252.AA23659@bacchus.eng.umd.edu> <1991Jan8.014236.14999@ping.chi.il.us> <1991Jan9.050238.27897@ping.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
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As quoted from <1991Jan9.050238.27897@ping.chi.il.us> by gorpong@ping.chi.il.us (Gordon C. Galligher):
+---------------
| I have been told that I could get the MMDF source (SCO UNIX uses MMDF)
| off of someplace like uunet, but I also got a response from someone at
| SCO informing me that SCO has made changes and added things to the standard
| MMDF stuff, and if I got the sources, I would lose that value added stuff,
| and my support.  Having post(8) being setuid is a Very, Very BAD thing
+---------------

SCO's giving you a snow job, as usual for them.  The ONLY value-added in their
MMDF is the micnet channel, and since we don't use and don't intend to use
micnet I removed it completely from the local configuration.  I also run
MMDFIIb #43 from louie.udel.edu with no problems (after some rewriting caused
by SCO's other snow job, "C2 security").

I *did* have a problem telling MH to compile with MMDF2 as the MTS.  I could
not use MMDF2/SMTP; this system does *not* run ODT and therefors does *not*
have TCP/IP and therefore the MMDFIIb sendmail clone can not be compiled.  I
looked at what it would take to make a pipe-only sendmail such as real
sendmail has available, but I can't take time away from real work on the
client's system to muck around with rewriting it.  I don't remember what it
was exactly:  some external variable didn't exist, I simply replaced it with a
constant value (don't rememeber if it was 0 or 1 or ???) and I haven't had
problems.  Yet.  (I posted about this a few months ago and got deafening
silence in response.  I guess nobody out there runs systems that don't have
TCP/IP on them but *do* have MMDF and MH.)

++Brandon
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