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In article <3047@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
	... talking about using MMDF with sendmail ...
>	Lacking that, anybody know of a phonenet module I can just plug
>into sendmail?  My current plan is to graft the mmdf phonenet stuff into
>sendmail, but if somebody has already invented that wheel, (or proven it
>impossible) I'd like to know about it.

Get the PMDF distribution, in particular the program called pmdf-master.
This program calls up another host using the phonenet protocol and
then delivers mail in both directions.  It spools mail into a directory,
with one message per file.  The format of the files are quite simple and
can be easily generated/decoded with a simple program.

I know this from experience since NCR does exactly this to exchange mail
with the CSNET relay machine.  The implementation delivers rfc976 mail
to pmdf-send which converts the message to rfc822 before
storing the message in PMDF format.  Pmdf-master is executed
from the crontab or on demand to exchange mail with relay.cs.net; once
finished pmdf-rcv converts the incoming messages from rfc822 to rfc976
and hands them off to our MTA.

The PMDF distribution tape is available from Ned Freed at Harvey Mudd
College (for $50?), or from CSNET for members of CSNET.  The only
program from the distribution that NCR uses is pmdf-master.  The two
conversion programs are available but will be real easy to write since 
you will not have to convert random rfc976 messages to legal rfc822.

Disclaimer: I'm no spokesman for NCR, I just built the thing.
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