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- From: Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
- Subject: Re: Running Metamail as root
- Message-ID: <oePiNsL0Bwwt8kipVs@transarc.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 17:03:52 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.080904.163654@eratu.rz.uni-konstanz.de>
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- Excerpts from internet.other.info-andrew: 23-Jul-92 Re: Running Metamail
- as root Z. Horvat@ames.arc.nasa. (1499)
-
- > Another thing, which i find sometimes annoying, is the sometimes too strict
- > type of address validation. E.g. Person Abc Def, which is only reachable via
- > a gateway, would be adressed like that:
-
- > To:@xyz.org:Abc.Def@blah.blah.blah.xyz.org
-
- > Adressing this person that way with elm works and the message gets delivered.
- > Using messages, it complains that the adress is not valid. In fact, the adress
- > is valid, but messages just thinks so. Wouldn4t it be a more user friendly way
- > if messages would warn and ask ?
-
- You control all this via AndrewSetup. Check the AMS_DeliveryViaXXX,
- AMS_ValidateDestHosts, and AMS_HardHostValidationErrors options. One
- kind of behavior that Messages might be doing here is to check whether
- the domain system says that you can get mail to ``xyz.org'' via type A
- or type MX records. If you want Messages to do remote host validation,
- you have to configure it to validate remote host names in the same way
- that your underlying mail delivery system will do it.
-
- > One other thing that i miss, is to build aliases or nicknames "on the
- > fly". Let4s
- > say a menu option which allows me to extract the mail adress from the current
- > message i4m in and assign a alias to it. Maybe this function is already
- > there and
- > i4ve just missed something ?
-
- It's not there in native code, but you could cut-and-paste into your
- ~/.AMS_aliases file. Perhaps some compound-action wizard or Ness wizard
- could come up with some function that you could bind to a keystroke that
- would (say) take the highlighted address, prompt for an alias name, and
- add the combination to ~/.AMS_aliases.
-
- Craig
-