[3011] in Release_Engineering
[daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU : New dsmail]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mhbraun@MIT.EDU)
Tue May 25 15:52:26 1993
From: mhbraun@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 25 May 93 15:52:17 -0400
To: rel-eng@MIT.EDU
Cc: op@MIT.EDU, probe@MIT.EDU
Here is the info about the new dsmail that Stan sent.
As some additional information this dsmail is now running on menelaus from a
build that is /mit/opssrc/discuss/dsmail (There is in fact a full discuss
build there (except for a few symlinks))
the new manpage is in /mit/discuss/sandbox/man/dsmail.1 the relevant useage
changes are:
-s subject-match-limit
specifies that subject matching should be used to chain transac-
tions. If this option is specified, the last subject-match-limit
number of transactions are searched backwards to find a matching
subject. If found, the transaction is chained to the given tran-
saction. Daemon should have either ``read'' or ``owner'' access to
the meeting for this to work.
Matt
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[8576] daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (srz@Athena.MIT.EDU) Ops_Projects 03/22/93 14:03 (28 lines)
Subject: New dsmail
From: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 14:03:46 -0500
To: op@Athena.MIT.EDU
(Richard suggested I send this here...)
A few months ago, I updated dsmail to include a few new features, such
as chaining based on subject lines, full header lines, and improved
syntax for In-reply-to: lines ([0050] in meeting_name).
I've tested the new version on the SIPB discuss servers, and pointed
the faculty liaisons at the new version for Nemesis.
It would be nice to have this new version installed on menelaus and
zeus. The source is in the discuss CVS tree, and is also available in
/mit/discuss/sandbox/source/mclient/dsmail.c.
To enable the subject chaining, the dsmail aliases will need to change
to add the "-s <nn>" option. "-s 20" will search the last 20
transactions for a matching subject.
On another note, I have tested a new syntax for sending mail to
discuss meetings as "meeting.discuss@server"; if this were installed
in the sendmail.cf on discuss servers, it would mean less work for
accounts to set up these feeds on the servers themselves.
-stan
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