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тАО01-03-2008 08:25 AM
тАО01-03-2008 08:25 AM
Visiting http://www.madgoat.com/ doesn't inspire confidence - "Former home of MadGoat Software", etc.
Has MadGoat Software gone away ?
If so, it seems that sooner or later we'll need to replace MX.
I've seen PMDF recommended in several places - including as an alternative for HP TCPIP Services' IMAP server.
Any views on PMDF as an MX replacement ?
One concern I have is that the PMDF information on the web all seem a bit dated. eg case studies pre-2000, referring to Windows NT, etc. Is this a product near the end of its life ?
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тАО01-03-2008 08:54 AM
тАО01-03-2008 08:54 AM
Re: MadGoat MX
As a going concern, I believe so. Their
products have tended to live on, however.
> [...] the PMDF information on the web all
> seem a bit dated. [...] Is this a product
> near the end of its life ?
I doubt it.
http://www.process.com/tcpip/pmdf.html
http://www.process.com/techsupport/pmdf.html
(Your "on the web" seems to be more limited
than mine.)
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тАО01-03-2008 09:19 AM
тАО01-03-2008 09:19 AM
Re: MadGoat MX
products have tended to live on, however.
We certainly haven't had to touch MX 5.3 in ages. It's just that if something *did* go wrong, we'd be a bit stuck.
> http://www.process.com/tcpip/pmdf.html
> http://www.process.com/techsupport/pmdf.html
> (Your "on the web" seems to be more limited
than mine.)
I guess so. There are certainly more reassuring references in there. Windows 2003 amd RHEL are nice to see.
It was the case studies at http://www.process.com/tcpip/pmdfcase.html that mostly seemed a bit 'last decade'.
Thanks.
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тАО01-03-2008 12:49 PM
тАО01-03-2008 12:49 PM
Re: MadGoat MX
Great commerical product, love it !!
FYI, Process Software (they sell Multinet and TCPware as well as PMDF) now have a hobbyist license (free; annual renewal ... parallels the OpenVMS Hobbyist program) for PMDF.
Verne
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тАО01-04-2008 12:54 PM
тАО01-04-2008 12:54 PM
SolutionFWIW, I did most of the development on MX from '92 to '96 or so, and I've been using PMDF since we took it over in 2001. For VMS Mail users, the PMDF MAIL agent alone is reason enough to use PMDF....
As for MadGoat Software, Matt did shut it down a few months ago.
Hunter
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тАО01-16-2008 04:16 AM
тАО01-16-2008 04:16 AM
Re: MadGoat MX
We've used both the freeware and subsequent commercial versions of MX since the mid 90s, and always been impressed.
I'm now feeling comfortable with PMDF as a replacement should we need to move from MX.
One thing that Hunter might be well placed to comment on. We use MX's MLF (list server) quite heavilly (for automatically generated lists of students, etc). Does PMDF have an equivalent ?
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тАО01-16-2008 09:43 AM
тАО01-16-2008 09:43 AM
Re: MadGoat MX
I do not know the answer as associated with PMDF. Majordomo is a common choice, and there have been OpenVMS ports around. (It's written in Perl, and perl is available for OpenVMS)
Among other discussions:
http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/
As for MX, you might want to ask Matt if he wants to license or sub-license or to open-source the software you are using.
I'd not spend a whole lot here on up-rating the existing gear until and unless needed, and as there are various other solutions available for OpenVMS and for various other platforms that can serve as well as these products.
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тАО01-16-2008 10:50 AM
тАО01-16-2008 10:50 AM
Re: MadGoat MX
PMDF has MAILSERV, which provides mailing list capabilities (and a lot more). You can read about it in the PMDF System Manager's Guide:
http://www.process.com/tcpip/PMDF63-2docs/documentation/html/sysman/book_6a.html#chapter_maillists
If modifying your existing list-creation procedures is daunting, you can also choose to continue using MX for the MLF capability and PMDF for everything else. You'd just need a couple of rewrite rules in PMDF and MX to pass messages back and forth.
Hunter
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тАО02-05-2008 06:45 AM
тАО02-05-2008 06:45 AM
Re: MadGoat MX
http://www.madgoat.com/
Hunter
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тАО02-05-2008 08:12 AM
тАО02-05-2008 08:12 AM
Re: MadGoat MX
ftp://ftp.process.com/vms-freeware/fileserv/mx060_src.zip
http://vms.process.com/ftp/vms-freeware/fileserv/mx060_src.zip
ftp://ftp.tmk.com/vms-freeware/fileserv/mx060_src.zip
http://www.tmk.com/ftp/vms-freeware/fileserv/mx060_src.zip
Hunter