rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) (02/01/90)
MMDF is another way of doing the same kinds of things that sendmail does:
Mail aliasing
Mailing lists
Address rewriting
Forwarding to delivery agents (mailers or channels)
It also includes its own local delivery programs, a more flexible version
of .forward files ("feed this message here and here, then delete it" for
example). It seems to handle large mailing lists better. It seems better
written. Initial set-up is harder, learning the code takes a great deal
of up-front work.
Until CSRG replaces sendmail with something else, most people will be
running SendMail. SCO provides MMDF now, and Concurrent (back when they
were Masscomp) said they'd be using it. I think the most active
maintiners are the CSNET and Corporate Computer Services group at BBN.
Most of BBN uses it. (My group uses sendmail.)
Hope this helps.
/r$
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