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- On Tue, 1 Sep 1992, John Gardiner Myers wrote:
-
- > AMDS (the Andrew Message Delivery System) has the forwarding
- > information in the "White Pages" user directory component. Users
- > change their mail forwarding with the same mechanism they use to
- > change their office phone number, though many client programs provide
- > more direct support for changing the former than the latter.
-
- If delivery is to a pool of centrally-managed servers, why does the user
- need to worry about forwarding? Or is this to accommodate folks with
- departmental hosts?
-
- > I tend to share Mark's reluctance about anything with a name starting
- > with "X.". There is a directory service named "CSO/ph" or similar
- > that seems simple. I haven't examined it in detail, but I believe it
- > deserves looking into.
-
- I agree that ph should be evaluated before falling into the X. hole
- (though Michigan claims that X.500 over the new light-weight stack is
- working well for them), but my question is: why is this an IMAP issue?
- I would have guessed it was an MUA function. (Actually, pair of
- functions, as I'm interested in both the usual human-initiated W.P. search
- for someone's address, plus the ability for the MUA to *validate*
- addresses --at least local ones-- before sending the msg. It's always
- annoying to reply to a msg that has a bunch of addresses, one of which is
- a typo.)
-
- -teg
-
-