From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <007501c0443e$6537f100$0ab9c6d4@cybercable.fr> From: "Boyd Roberts" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <20001101182523.BEDAD199E6@mail> Subject: Re: [9fans] /n/smtp MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 21:00:33 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1ff2e98c-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 From: > boyd fell into the RFC trap by naming the service /n/smtp. thanks. yes i should have called it something else: /n/rfc822 or /chan/postoffice. it's sendmail -t funtionality that i want; reading the destinations out of the headers. this does work. it has nothing to do with smtp until the message gets sent via smtp and i never envisioned an MTA dumping messages into it, just the user agent. russ told me that it would serve no purpose, but i 'counter attacked' :-) importing it off the firewall. a free proxy; code running on the the firewall with 9P/styx gluing it to wherever it's needed. how many plan 9 programmers does it take to change a lightbulb? none, you just import one from somewhere else :-) if i could concentrate at work, i'd probably code it. that, is the impossible part: 32 in a open plan office, 32 phones, 32+ mobiles. by the time i've 'survived' the day i'm just too knackered to do anything but veg out on the sofa, with 'coma' [my sony vaio 505]. yesterday's brilliant achievement was: chmod 775 dir even better than the day of: mkdir d1 mkdir d2 seriously, i get paid to do that. 18 years of unix, 15 years of IP -- wasted.