Subject: Interfacing with MMDF and MH

From: Dale Peakall <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 22 May 94 18:56:20 +0100

I want to run Pine on my site at University.  However, the sys admins
have no intention of suppoerting /usr/spool/mail as we run MMDF over
multiple machines which are all NFS mounted.

The default mailer we use is MH, and the system is set-up to put mail
files into individual files within sub-directories which act as MH
folders (in MH format).

I've looked at the source of the pine c-client library and have seen
MMDF drivers, and MH drivers.  I modified the makefile for the
c-client library to make it compile these files, and added the calls
to make_link in pine.c (just after the link to dummy) and compiled
pine as well:

make_link((DRIVER *)&mhdriver)
make_link((DRIVER *)&mmdfdriver)

However, this still doesn't allow me to access my MH mailbox with
pine.  Am I striving towards the impossible, or am I just going about
it completely the wrong way?

Dale Peakall.
<[email-masked]>

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 11:26:11 -0700 (PDT)

The dummydriver is the catch-all, so all other drivers need to be linked
before it.  However, the MH driver in the pine 3.89 distribution is very
incomplete.  The current IMAP Toolkit (mail/imap.tar.Z on
ftp.cac.washington.edu) includes a complete MH driver.  The new driver will
be active by default in Pine 3.90 (due before summer). 

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