david@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (David Lassner) (04/09/89)
We're interested in using the POP server that comes with MH6.6 to serve networked micros using the MH client that comes with the Stanford microcomputer IP implementations (Mac-IP and PC-IP). This works fine if we pipe incoming mail through the slocal filter, but this also unfortunately results in a non-standard spool file. The spool file that the POP server reads has the MH delimiters (^A by default), a Delivery-Date header, and a modified From header (preceded by >). The only host-based user agent that can read this modified mail file is MH itself. But we don't use MH much (at all) around here on our hosts. Rather it's a mix of BSD mail and Columbia MM. All of Columbia MM, BSD mail, and host MH can read a standard BSD mail file just fine (messages delimited by the From (no colon) header. Is there some trick to getting the POP server to do the same? If not, do sites that use the POP server simply write off any host-based user agents other than MH? Ideally, we'd like our users to be able to use any of the host-based user agents as well as the local agents via the POP server. -- David Lassner, University of Hawaii Computing Center, 808/948-7351 INTERNET: david@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu BITNET: david@uhccux