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- From: Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
- Subject: Re: "slow networks"
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- Date: 1 Sep 92 18:12:45 GMT
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- Excerpts from internet.other.info-andrew: 1-Sep-92 Re: "slow networks"
- Bill Cattey@Athena.MIT.E (669+0)
-
- > Excerpts from mail: 28-Aug-92 Re: "slow networks" Bob Dew@alw.nih.gov (1038*)
-
- >> As things are, if ATK is compiled without the options for AFS and AMDS,
- >> are the resulting programs much larger and more complicated than if the
- >> message server code didn't exist at all?
-
- > I forgot to answer this issue.
-
- > I can't compile messages without the AFS option enabled. Well, I can,
- > but if any of the file servers in my READ ONLY mspath goes down,
- > messages will not let me SEND outgoing mail -- even though I am sending
- > it with sendmail!
-
- > The amsn.do file is 1 Meg. What of that do I REALLY need to read
- > hierarchies of messages format archives and to send mail using sendmail?
-
- This has nothing to do with AMDS or sendmail. This has to do with your
- mspath, which of course is never read-only. (Or, more to the point,
- it's read-only to just about anybody.)
-
- The message server's address validation code (yes, address validation,
- done in the message server and NOT in AMDS) checks all destination
- addresses you type to see if they might be names of bboards to which
- you're trying to post. (There is a read-only attribute usable on a
- per-folder basis, that will refrain from validating any attempt to post
- there, but this is an attribute of a folder, not an attribute of an
- mspath element.) The bboard names are ultimately stored as files and
- directories under the mspath elements that you name, and the conversion
- to postable addresses is done via files in those directories (under
- those mspath elements).
-
- And, gee, messages does exactly the same thing to me when I try to post
- if any of the directory trees in my mspath is unavailable. Only
- messages will simply ask for confirmation of the address; it doesn't
- ``not let me SEND outgoing mail''. Bill, does your Messages actually
- refuse to send the mail, or does it simply ask whether the address is
- correct as it stands, since you might have intended it to address mail
- to be posted on one of the bboards?
-
- Craig
-