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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: IDA
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.055753.3346@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
References: <JBRYANS.91Mar17182038@beach.csulb.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 05:57:53 GMT
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In article <JBRYANS.91Mar17182038@beach.csulb.edu> jbryans@beach.csulb.edu (Jack Bryans) writes:
>I got a lot'a local static about giving sendmail-IDA a try, all the way up to
>"It'll never work", esp. wrt decnet (more on that later).  Enough to give me
>the impression that IDA may have had a bad rep some time back.  Whatever it may
>have been, it's just fine now.

 Thanks for the support.

>It looks like someone dug into the src to make it port to a lot of platforms.
>The hacking into the .c's I had to do w/vanilla Berkeley 5.64 was unnecessary;
>it compiled in Ultrix 4.1 w/o a whimper.

 Paul Pomes at uiuc did a lot of work on that.  He will appreciate your
comments too

>I haven't been able to get the DECNETXTABLE option to do anything for me.  It's
>sparsely commented, but suggests that it'll use decnet routing for hosts that
>are both decnet & TCP.  Perhaps someone who's had luck w/it'll post a follow
>up.

  I am currently experimenting with this.  If you have a recent version of
'rcs', and fetch the rcs archive of my rulesets from mp.cs.niu.edu:pub/cf
you will find my experiment hidden in a branch somewhere.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940
