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- From: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com (Dillon Pyron)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
- Subject: Re: Re: Possible Bug?? (fwd)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.145658.9018@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 14:56:58 GMT
- References: <23805FBA30JUL92050336@TGV.COM>
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- In article <23805FBA30JUL92050336@TGV.COM>, adelman@TGV.COM writes:
- >>> 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
- This may be a vestige of my arch nemesis, Excellan! It required a userid for
- POSTMASTER, and cloned SYSTEM to create it. Someone used to that monster, errh
- product, might have assumed that POSTMASTER(EXOS) = POSTMASTER(MultiNet) and
- got bit. Me, I inited a disk and installed VMS, 20 layered products and
- MultiNet, just to get away from EXOS!
- >
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