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- Date: 30 JUL 92 05:03:36 GMT
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- X-RFC822-From: adelman (Kenneth Adelman) @ TGV.COM
- From: adelman@TGV.COM
- Subject: Re: Possible Bug?? (fwd)
- Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
- Message-ID: <23805FBA30JUL92050336@TGV.COM>
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- >> The default MultiNet installation has POSTMASTER set to SYSTEM
- >> for this reason. Whatever the destination of the POSTMASTER account, it
- >> should have forwarding disabled and perhaps even be on the system
- >> disk with a lot of quota to prevent this problem.
- >>
- >> Ken
- >>
- > Ken, what does "POSTMASTER set to SYSTEM" actually mean? I don't know of any
- > aliasing system or anything like that. On our other VAX, also running
- > Multinet, I did notice that POSTMASTER and SYSTEM have the same UIC, and that
- > is how I set up the problem system this morning. Should the SMTP symbiont
- > really have been just as happy sending the response to SYSTEM even without
- > POSTMASTER being defined in SYSUAF.DAT? Or do both need to be defined, but
- > giving them the same UIC mean both read the same mail?
-
- It means the in MULTINET CONFIGURE/NETWORK that the SMTP-POSTMASTER
- parameter is set to SYSTEM (the default). This causes START_MULTINET.COM
- to define a system-wide logical name POSTMASTER as SYSTEM. Setting to the
- value POSTMASTER will cause it to not create this logical name.
-
- MultiNet didn't create the POSTMASTER account on your system; either
- you or some other software package did. Both don't need to be defined;
- as long as MultiNet is given a "safe" destination for Postmaster mail.
- You'd need to give them the same UIC and directory for them both to
- read the same mail.
-
- Ken
-