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- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!emory!uumind!willard!knex!gess
- From: Gess Shankar <gess@knex.via.mind.ORG>
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: V-MailServer 1.22
- Message-ID: <ui5qwB1w165w@knex.via.mind.ORG>
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 08:26:29 EST
- References: <803PwB4w165w@vsystem.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Reply-To: <gess@knex.via.mind.ORG> (Gess Shankar)
- Organization: |<><>| Knowledge Exchange, GA, USA |<><>|
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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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