Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 12:12:58 -0400
Message-Id: <9306161612.AA00312@paris>
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@MIT.EDU>
To: charon-maintainers@Athena.MIT.EDU, discussers@Athena.MIT.EDU
Subject: meeting.DISCUSS@charon works now


The sendmail hack that runs dsmail for this type of address calls dsmail
with the -s option, which is not implemented in the Athena dsmail.  I
have installed the 1.7EXL dsmail as /usr/local/bin/dsmail, and made the
sendmail.cf use that for incoming messages of the form
meeting.DISCUSS@charon.  Note that I did not replace
/usr/athena/bin/dsmail on the local srvd.  It is still being used for
the majority of the discuss meetings.

I am using the meeting.DISCUSS alias for the vi-users@athena -> VI Users
discuss meeting feed.  I don't think any other lists are using it,
because it wouldn't have worked (the sendmail.cf had /usr/local/dsmail
in it, which did not exist.)

I suppose if anyone wants to use the subject-matching facilities of the
new dsmail, they can change their feed to point to
meeting.DISCUSS@charon rather than meeting-mtg@charon, but I haven't
been doing dsmail work, so I don't know offhand whether the dsmail I
yanked out of the exl build tree to put in /usr/local/bin is stable; I'm
willing use it with a meeting I maintain, but I'm not going to take the
risk of installing it for use with all meetings.

-Calvin