> $ pmdf ver
> %PMDF-I-VERSION, PMDF version is PMDF V6.2-1
> AlphaServer 4100 5/533 4MB running OpenVMS Alpha V7.3
> PMDF_SHARE_LIBRARY version V6.2-1; linked 00:24:07, Oct 8 2004

> Is there any problem with defining PMDF_MAILSERV_MAIL_DIR to be a search
> list logical? I potentially have some mailing lists coming at me that
> will be more convenient if they're allowed to have longer names (40-60
> characters) than normal. Because of that, I'd like to use an ODS-5 disk
> for the second entry in the search list. The lists on that device would
> be built by scripts and would not be subject to normal maintenance via
> MAILSERV. Send/list might be used, but no subscribes or unsubscribes.

> A very brief trial showed that this seems to work. I can send to such a
> list just fine, with or without the search list logical. And with the
> search list logical, send/list returned the membership of the list.

> Is there something that I'm forgetting here?

Not that I can see. THe obvious problem would be list revision - I would
expect that to write the new list file in the first area the search
list finds, which would not be good. But as long as you don't modify the
lists on the second and subsequent volumes with MAILSERV you should
be OK.

Ned