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In article <1990Jul17.204302.18027@d.cs.okstate.edu> klarich@d.cs.okstate.edu (KLARICH TERRY JAME) writes:
>Currently, I have mmdf installed on an ultrix machine which I manage.  I would
> like to provide a variety of mail interfaces for the users.  After looking at
>mush, I thaught I would try and get it up and running.  I have two questions I
>can't seem to find the answers for.
...
>  First, is there any way to keep mush
>from messing up the "._.mail" file used by mmdf?

That '._' file is used by `msg' (only) so that msg can know where
all the messages in the mailbox are.  If you use some other mail
reader which doesn't maintain that file, be it vi(1) or elm or the
ucbmail provided with MMDF, it will modify the file.  Among the
attributes kept in the file is time&date stamps and size.

The way to keep mush from `messing' that file up is to not use mush.

Given a choice between those two I prefer msg, but my real choice in
user agents is xmh... :-)

>  Second, could some one
>let me know what is actually required to get mush to talk to
>"/usr/mmdf/submit"?

Out of the box mush talks to submit by the way of the sendmail
emulator included with MMDF.  One problem, which I haven't tracked
down yet, is that (at least with the mush installed at ms.uky.edu)
the return-address-for-errors ends up pointing at the postmaster.
Not good..

User agents are supposed to use one of two sets of routines for
talking to submit.  They are the ml_*() and mm_*() routines, and
are located in libmmdf.a and compiled from source under lib/mmdf.

In the MMDF documentation, in section 3, there are manual pages
for both of these modules.

If that isn't enough then there are a few small programs in the
source tree which you can use as examples.  For instance, the sendmail
emulator mentioned above, the v6mail program might be a better example.

>Terry Klarich <klarich@d.cs.okstate.edu> or <terry@unx.ucc.okstate.edu>


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