Re: [MacPerl] RE: Porting Majordomo

[Brian McNett <webmaster@mycoinfo.com>]

>I'm sure it does, but you have to receive the bounces before you can
>handle them.  That means either majordomo listens on port 25 for them
>itself or you're running an SMTP server which handles that for you.
>The latter is preferred, especially under MacOS where you can't just
>fork off another copy of perl to handle things.

I think the latter (running a SMTP server) is presumed.  If I'm reading 
this correctly, majordomo has sendmail checking port 25 (I may well be 
wrong about this). Also I'm finding numerous (14 but this includes 
mentions made in the documentation) instances of fork().  I'm not through 
looking at the code yet!  I will be able to give a much clearer opinion 
in a few days, but for the moment I have to set this aside.  My feeling 
is that there will be a significant amount of effort involved in doing a 
port, and the end result may not bear much resemblence to the original.

Many thanks to the others who are picking this up and running with it.

--Brian


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