[TUHS] Mailer History -- was Berkeley CSRG Building

[Eric Allman via TUHS]

On 2024-08-14 12:20, Clem Cole wrote:
>
>     Did that idea ever grow any significant legs?
>
> I guess the word here is significant.  It certainly was used where it 
> made sense.  In the CAD group, we had simulations that might run for a 
> few days.   We used to call the mailer every so often to send status 
> and sometimes do something like a checkpoint. It lead to Sam writing 
> syslogd, particularly after Joy created UNIX domain sockets.   But I 
> can say we used it a number of places in systems oriented or long 
> running code before syslogd as a scheme to log errors, deal with stuff.

Another correction: I wrote syslogd as part of the delivermail/sendmail 
project, but I did intentionally make it generic so it could be used by 
other services. Interestingly, I even got it to work on v6 using 
something called "mpx files".

eric
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