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From: nazgul@apollo.COM (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: unix mail configuration in an internet of rings
Message-ID: <42f7c091.1b147@apollo.COM>
Date: 1 May 89 21:11:00 GMT
References: <1537@lgnp1.LS.COM>
Reply-To: nazgul@apollo.COM (Kee Hinckley)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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In article <1537@lgnp1.LS.COM> vskahan@lgnp1.LS.COM (Vince Skahan) writes:
>
>I have an old picture of Apollo's corporate network that came in the
>mail one time on the wall and it looks huge...how do you folks handle
>mail (do you use DPSS or unix or both) ???  
>

Some people use sendmail, but most of the sites have a link
to a post office site local to a particular ring in the
network.  Which postal site mail arrives at is not visible
to the sender.  The saving grace to this system is that the
version of DPSS used internally supports store and forward,
so if the network is down the mail still gets sent eventually.

To forestall any questions, no there are no plans to release
that version of DPSS (nor do I think you would really want
it - personal opinion only).  I don't really know enough
about how to set up sendmail configurations to recommend
what to do in that area, but I'm sure someone on the net
has dealt with the same problem.
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