Talk:MMDF

Anecdote

I remember when I did tech support for an ISP that used MMDF, it acquired the name "the Mail Munching and Deletion Facility" as it was not too hot on 8-bit encodings. Oh happy days. I'd add the nickname, but not sure how widespread the name was or if it was an internal thing MrWeeble Talk Brit tv 09:38, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Ideally a source should be cited for verification, not personal memory of an editor. W Nowicki (talk) 20:45, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

'MMDF is still being developed by SCO' -- It's public record that SCO is bankrupt. it's highly unlikely that SCO is still be developing this software. I'm going to remove that statement because it lacks a citation or any supporting evidence. If this is indeed true please re-add it with a citation. Unixtastic (talk) 14:54, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Addition to the history, but I don't have any documentation, just personal knowledge & experience

In the mid-1980s I was the email & system administrator for the U of Kentucky Dept of Mathematical Sciences. We initially connected to the Internet via a dialup service, CSNET, operated by BBN. The Wikipedia page on CSNET discusses that service.

At that time, CSNET suggested using either MMDF or Sendmail for connections to CSNET, and I chose to use MMDF.

BBN maintained a copy of MMDF for this purpose. I don't know about the relative history of this version of MMDF versus the SCO version or PMDF versions named on this Wikipedia page. Just that BBN/CSNET supplied MMDF as source code, which I installed and configured for UKY Math Sciences systems.

After some time, I'd sent in a number of patches for MMDF. This included a package for BSMTP because it was used for systems connected to BITNET (as were the systems I maintained).

After I'd sent a sufficient number of patches, the guys at BBN offered to me to be the maintainer for MMDF. I did that for a few years, and I even owned the mmdf.com domain for awhile. The handover for control over MMDF probably happened in 1987 or 1988. CSNET was probably winding down as NSFNET was starting up. UKY joined NSFNET in 1987ish and dropped our CSNET connection some time after that.

I handed over MMDF maintainership to someone (I forget who) in around 1992. By that time I was an employee of The Wollongong Group working on an X.400 email system based on PP which in turn was derived from MMDF. But, that ended in 1994 when TWG had a large layoff - Microsoft's announcement that Win95 would contain TCP/IP was the death knell for companies like TWG which had supplied TCP/IP for DOS and Windows.

I have no records supporting the above. But, I know that it is accurate.

The X.400 page on Wikipedia does not mention PP. It was an open source implementation of X.400 which ran on top of ISODE.

There is an ISODE page on Wikipedia that has a brief snippet about PP. That page does mention TWG as being listed as a contributor to ISODE. Marshall Rose was a TWG employee for awhile, prior to my joining the company.

Because I don't have documentation, and because the cross verification from other sources is weak, I'm not sure how to proceed. Dsherron (talk) 15:35, 20 July 2025 (UTC)