qdms - the quick and dirty mailserver

In the begining of Internet, all information was exchanged with help of UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy). It went either as email or as remote copy. No web or ftp-sites.

As a matter of fact, other means than email was relatively rare outside universities or big-time computer companies in the beginning of 90:ies. In -92 I was to teach a group of people advanced shell script programming and had trouble finding a case.

But doing a lot of work with email, I desided to try making a mailserver, a server handling requests from others, retreving file from the site I worked at. I also wanted to show programming with shell functions, a then rather new feature in Bourne shells.

The result became the qdms or quick and dirty mailserver , a rather hastly constructed product, that still did it's job. It was presented in alt.sources and one of the sites trying it out was Univ of Indiana's famed CICA archive as a compliment to it's ftp-repository. The original mailserver site is long gone, but since qdms is still refered to in the Internet Mailserver FAQ, I hereby makes it available once more.

Kurt M