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rick@vsystem.wimsey.bc.ca (Rick Vandenberg) writes:

> Version 2.0, slated for release in February, handles multiple
> addresses, up to 128 characters in length.  This is an MSDOS limitation.
> I cannot use the longer Unix command line, because V-MailServer doesn't
> queue files directly in the Waffle spool queue. Instead it calls RMAIL
> to handle the delivery of the messages.  V-MailServer is designed to
> work with any MSDOS UUCP software - Waffle, UUPC, whatever.  To allow it
> to create the actual spool files would for me to write code to support a
> half-dozen different UUCP packages.  Their format could change at any
> time, and would cause be no end of grief.
> 
V-MailServer creates its own queue files, but it generates individual
command and data files for each address. I suppose this facilitates
passing it to the mailing agent such as Rmail. I suggest an option
(configurable) that will generate one data file with most of the
headers set and individual command files. V-MailServer (vmailx) can
use these to create the queue files of the host (rnews or whatever).
Anyone wishing to change the scheme of things can write a program to
take the above and create the spool they want including 512 byte
address lines. V-MailServer itself can include such a utility or 3rd
parties can step in. If the format changes (what doesn't), one still
has the option of using the native code (rnews in Waffle), while scrambling
to update the add-on. ;-)

> 
> 
> I don't know why the mailing list would receive the subscribe request
> also, except that maybe the mail-server alias points to both the
> mail server _and_ the mailing list.  By the way, the necessity to use

No amount of aliasing is going to prevent mail-server commands
appearing on the list, if the command is addressed to the list.
Happens all the time and in all the lists, much to the annoyance of
subscribers, who create more off-topic mail by flaming. I have decided
to semi-moderate my list and I filter out such boo-boos and bounce the
command with a note to the sender. Takes work, but, hey,I am a caring
person ;-)

GeSS
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