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From: Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM
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Subject: Re: AMDS in an non-AFS environment ?
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Date: 8 Apr 91 17:01:41 GMT
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AMDS is a local mail delivery system.  I doubt that you really want to
run it unless you're also running AFS or something a lot like it.  In
particular, it's most useful within a single naming environment; you
could run it on a single machine, or in any collection of machines that
share files, where a given file has the same name everywhere.  (This is
the standard situation with AFS.)

It sounds as though you simply want to run AMS, which is a collection of
user agents and often a daemon that manages public folder trees.  AMS
user interfaces allow users to treat their personal mail and the public
folders (local bboards, netnews, mailing lists) as variants of one
another.  The short version of how that works is like this:  Every user
gets to build a folder tree for their own mail.  You can invent
distinguished pseudo-users in the system whose folders are open for
public read access, that are used as the local public bboards, and that
are updated by daemons running as one or more of these pseudo-users
(absorbing netnews and what-not).

Hope this helps.

		Craig