Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Subject: Re: IDA Message-ID: <1991Mar18.055753.3346@mp.cs.niu.edu> Organization: Northern Illinois University References: Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 05:57:53 GMT Lines: 29 In article jbryans@beach.csulb.edu (Jack Bryans) writes: >I got a lot'a local static about giving sendmail-IDA a try, all the way up to >"It'll never work", esp. wrt decnet (more on that later). Enough to give me >the impression that IDA may have had a bad rep some time back. Whatever it may >have been, it's just fine now. Thanks for the support. >It looks like someone dug into the src to make it port to a lot of platforms. >The hacking into the .c's I had to do w/vanilla Berkeley 5.64 was unnecessary; >it compiled in Ultrix 4.1 w/o a whimper. Paul Pomes at uiuc did a lot of work on that. He will appreciate your comments too >I haven't been able to get the DECNETXTABLE option to do anything for me. It's >sparsely commented, but suggests that it'll use decnet routing for hosts that >are both decnet & TCP. Perhaps someone who's had luck w/it'll post a follow >up. I am currently experimenting with this. If you have a recent version of 'rcs', and fetch the rcs archive of my rulesets from mp.cs.niu.edu:pub/cf you will find my experiment hidden in a branch somewhere. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940