Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!lubich
From: lubich@ethz.UUCP (Hannes Lubich)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  Food for thought
Message-ID: <696@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 88 12:54:14 GMT
References: <8811242359.AA16614@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: lubich@bernina.UUCP (Hannes Lubich)
Organization: ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
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Dave is absolutely right. I've been running a Swisswide mail gateway to 
BBN for 2 years now using mmdf and UBC's EAN, since our academic mail is
almost completely based on EAN (i.e. X.400 mail).
The mmdf philosophy of compiling most of the mapping rules and still giving 
you as much flexibility in table configuration as possible really helps in 
setting up and managing such a gateway in fast and reliable way.
Besides, when EAN changed from version 1 to version 2, we needed a different 
interface between mmdf and EAN. The channel philosophy of mmdf again helped
us in coding this new channel in a very short time, compared with other mail 
gateways developed here.
Cheers
	--HaL

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