Re: [TUHS] off-topic list

Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon(a)orthanc.ca> wrote: They are still active though I can't remember what their software is called these days. It has grown a lot of features, e.g. IMAP message store. According to the MMDF FAQ, MMDF was also the basis for PP, but my PP manual says MMDF was just the inspiration, and it suggests that Kille and his team rewrote it from scratch. PP was the UK Grey Book / X.400 mailer, and (according to its manual) its name definitely did not stand for Postman Pat. PP is still around as the (commercial) ISODE mail server. When I worked at Demon Internet in 1997-2000, they were using MMDF for their mail servers - I gather this came from their origins as a SCO consultancy. At Cambridge, our central email relay was named the "PP Switch" in about 1991 (IIRC) and it is still to this day called ppsw.cam.ac.uk. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot(a)dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea: Variable 3 or 4, occasionally east 5 in Lundy and Fastnet. Smooth or slight, occasionally moderate in southwest Fastnet. Fair. Good.