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- Subject: RE: Talking about MCI, how about a SprintMail PMDF interface?
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- From: Ned Freed <ned@innosoft.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 02:11:54 -0700 (PDT)
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- We'd have to know more about the protocols Sprint uses before we'd be
- able to make an intelligent reply to this. At least one other site is
- already pursuing the available protocol question. I suggest that you find
- out from Sprint what standard (or nonstandard) protocols they support for
- accessing their service.
-
- As for using one mailbox to serve multiple local users, the concept of an
- MTA-level mailbox is hardly new. PMDF has them (they're called channels),
- Message Router has them (they're called mailboxes), and I'm quite sure
- that the concept was understood even when these products were developed.
- (PMDF in particular traces its use of channels back to MMDF.)
-
- Multi-use mailboxes at the UA level are rarer but by no means unheard of.
- Again, PMDF has them (username+use-specific-string@localhost), they'd
- be easy to do if anyone wanted to in Message Router, and so on. And again,
- the concept is not original; PMDF's facilities for this are copied from
- similiar facilities in the Andrew Messaging System. I have no idea where they
- got the idea from...
-
- Ned
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