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From: gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: simultaneous use of mmdf and sendmail
Message-ID: <3390005@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 15 Oct 88 17:33:05 GMT
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Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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/ comp.mail.misc / dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) / Oct 14, 1988 /
>Has anybody tried using mmdf and sendmail+smail confurrently on the
>same system, such that mmdf is used for some mail and sendmail for
>others?  Is this feasible?

I have.  (Not smail, just mmdf & sendmail).

You can do it, as long as:

	1.  Either sendmail daemon or the mmdf smtp daemon, but not
	    both, are listening to the SMTP socket (not your problem,
	    since you are not using SMTP).

	2.  Either your users use mail/Mail/mailx, or msg/send (MMDF's user
	    interfaces), but not both (their mailbox formats are different).

Now, I was running them concurrently only while I was installing, testing and
learning MMDF; I was doing it with the intention to replace sendmail.  I
did not use MMDF as a production mail system during this period.  You will
probably need to perform some trickery to get sendmail and MMDF to path
mail through each other (different addresses, perhaps?), but I've got no
experience in that.  I suspect you can use a MMDF Program Channel to pipe
messages into sendmail, and MMDF's 'resend' or 'submit' to have sendmail
pipe messages into MMDF.

Jacob Gore				Gore@EECS.NWU.Edu
Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept.		{oddjob,gargoyle,att}!nucsrl!gore