Re: [MacPerl] RE: Porting Majordomo

["Quentin Smith" <macmania@bit-net.com>]

>From: Geoffrey C Kinnel <kinnelg@bms.com>
>To: Brian McNett <brianmc@telebyte.net>, "mac-perl@iis.ee.ethz.ch"
<mac-perl@iis.ee.ethz.ch>
>Subject: Re: [MacPerl] RE: Porting Majordomo
>Date: Thu, Feb 11, 1999, 10:47 AM
>

> 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.
>

I believe you're missing something that is very simple: LibNet (
specifically Net::SMTP )

> 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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