Path: cnam!corton!mcsun!uunet!think.com!ames!agate!soda.berkeley.edu!comp-archives From: dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Dan Kegel) Newsgroups: comp.archives Subject: [comp.mail.misc] horton 1.6: automatic e-mail directory daemon & whoisd server Message-ID: Date: 23 Feb 92 07:33:36 GMT References: Followup-To: comp.mail.misc,comp.sys.sun.misc Organization: Image Analysis Systems Group, JPL Lines: 23 Approved: adam@lightning.Berkeley.EDU NNTP-Posting-Host: lightning.berkeley.edu X-Original-Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.sys.sun.misc X-Original-Date: 22 Feb 92 23:32:57 GMT Archive-name: auto/comp.mail.misc/horton-1-6-automatic-e-mail-directory-daemon-whoisd-server horton1.6.shar was posted today to alt.sources, and is also available via anonymous ftp as blacks.jpl.nasa.gov:pub/horton1.6.shar. Horton lets network administrators provide their users with a constantly updated e-mail directory with minimal effort. A single instance of Horton can service several thousand mailhosts. Horton creates a database of all active e-mail accounts in your domain, and provide access to the database via the whois protocol. Since Horton uses Finger to gather its information, no work is required on the part of other system administrators. (In this respect, it is rather like Archie, the FTP directory server.) You don't even have to tell Horton which hosts to poll; it figures that out itself using nslookup. Only hosts that support Finger, SMTP, and can route mail back to your host are polled. It has been tested at a university (thanks, Heather!) and at a large government research lab on Sun4's running SunOS 4.1 and 4.1.1, and accepts Finger output from many flavors of fingerd. - Dan Kegel (dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov)