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From: gatesl@jasper.cs.orst.edu (GATES LEE)
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Subject: Distributed MH
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Date: 23 Apr 91 03:25:36 GMT
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I am currently working on a project to make a distributed mail package.
The idea is having multiple mail (MH) servers, and having a user establish
a socket connection to one of the servers to read thier mail.  I am having
a little bit of trouble deciding which way to implement it, and thought
I would ask for some input and pointers in the right direction from the
net.

Right now, I am thinking of having a "dumb" client socket, in that it only
echos what it receives (the mail, or MH responses) from the server.  But
this means that I will have to either rewrite some (if not all) of the 
MH commands (the user will not have an account on the servers), or figure
out some way to fool MH to think that the user is local, and get all the
environment variables set....

If you have any ideas, thoughts, or know of a similar project somewhere
that I could look at, I would appreciate it.

thanx in advance.
lee