[241] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: documentation and /usr/spool/mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Ault)
Mon Jul 22 18:52:33 1991
To: Torben Nielsen <torben@foralie.ics.hawaii.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of
Cc: info-afs@transarc.com
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 91 17:38:51 -0400
From: James Ault <aultj@rpi.edu>
> I've looked at a fair bit of AMS documentation and in various places there're
> references to a paper on the Andrew Message Delivery System. But in one place
> it says that the paper is yet to be written. Anyone know of such a paper?
> We're looking at much the same problems and I'm trying to find all of the
> documentation on AMS I can. Particularly on the delivery system.
>
> Thanks, Torben
Regarding documentation (probably some of you have seen this before):
From: Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.xerox.com>
To: James Ault <ault@rpi.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 May 1991 14:03:16 PDT
Subject: Re: Documentation for Andrew Message System
Sender: Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.xerox.com>
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I got a couple of bound volumes of Andrew documentation from the ITC
folks at CMU:
Information Technology Center
Carnegie Mellon University
4910 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
U.S.A.
(412) 268-6700
FAX: (412) 268-6787
Mailing list: info-andrew@andrew.cmu.edu
(info-andrew-request@andrew.cmu.edu for subscriptions)
Newsgroup: comp.soft-sys.andrew
They also have a set of papers describing Andrew, which is what you want
for an overview or hands-off evaluation. You can ftp PS versions from
the ftp site emsworth.andrew.cmu.edu, ~ftp/psdoc/project/*.psc.Z.
Bill
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Regarding /usr/spool/mail:
We have been using a single host for mail delivery, and a central
NFS-mounted directory for mail for 2-3 years now. I assume the
developers of the Andrew Message System had evaluated the sendmail
(/bin/mail) delivery system when they decided to redesign it from
scratch for AFS. I think it would be unwise to try to cram the
/bin/mail delivery system into AFS.
We are moving to AFS right now, for widespread use this fall, and we
will be keeping that single host which will deliver mail into a local
filesystem (not in AFS). For now, all our hosts are still mounting that
directory on /usr/spool/mail, and it works reasonably well. We are
hoping to move to a POP based solution to remove the NFS aspects of it,
but we will probably retain that single host to function as a POP server
(with the possibility for adding other POP servers as time goes on).
If anyone would like details about any of this, send me a message.
We also would like to use Andrew Message System down the road, but we
don't have time to prepare it for fall, and we are faced with supporting
other mail user agents right now. Hopefully next year...
Jim Ault, ITS Systems Programmer, aultj@rpi.edu, +1 518 276 2750
