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From: sfleming@cs.hw.ac.uk (Stewart Fleming)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: SMail and biff
Keywords: smail, biff, comsat
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Date: 15 May 91 14:10:50 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Dept, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
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I have had SMail (3.1.18.1 #18.7) running under Ultrix 4.0 on a pair of
DECStation 5000/200 machines for a couple of months now.  Mail delivery
and forwarding functions work correctly; however, there is a problem with
mail notification using the biff/comsat service as an inetd client.

It would appear that SMail does not notify the biff server of incoming mail.
Some of the source files refer to a specific BIFF transport, but this has not
yet been implemented.

So, two questions :

1) Does anyone have a biff notifier transport written and available ?
2) What is involved in writing a specific transport for this task ?
   I know the functions needed to communicate with biff, but I am
   unfamiliar with how to tie this into the SMail transport mechanism.

Thanks for any help with this one - it's not a major-league problem, just
a minor inconvenience...

Stewart
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