Re: [MacPerl] RE: Porting Majordomo

[Geoffrey C Kinnel <kinnelg@bms.com>]

This sounds like an interesting project. I'm taking next week off from
work, so I downloaded the majordomo source and will poke around in it.
The major problem, I believe, will be finding a suitable equivalent to
sendmail. sendmail is available on virtually every *ixian machine (hmmm,
Dune reference?). However a suitable equivalent may not exist (for free)
for the mac. 

Hope you can garner further support for this, since I'm an armchair
hacker.

Geoff

Brian McNett wrote:
> 
> Without actually waiting for anyone to step in and repsond to my previous
> post, I've gone and downloaded Majordomo and taken a look at it.  Several
> things leap out at me from the outset.  First, loads of depricated Perl4
> syntax.  This may not be such a bad thing, as using Perl4 would allow me
> to run the mailing list off some of my legacy hardware, and not tie up
> the production machine.
> 
> The installer is a shell script.  This function will need to be done
> differently.
> 
> There is a tiny bit of C involved (I examined the file "wrapper.c", which
> includes a few explicit unixisms of its own (hard-coded paths), and
> may/will require porting).
> 
> Majordomo uses pipes. Majordomo uses sendmail. (both are reasonable
> assumptions on a Unix machine, but less so on the Mac)
> 
> There's more, but my sense is that if anyone wants to take this up, we
> can continue the discussion off-list (and return when the discussion
> merits it).
> 
> --Brian
> 
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