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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 03:22:35 GMT
- Sender: PMDF Distribution List <PMDF-L@IRLEARN.BITNET>
- From: "Daniel C. Newman" <DAN@INNOSOFT.COM>
- Subject: RE: Help needed with setting up the 'd' channel
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pmdf-l
- Lines: 51
-
- > We have a few VAXstations on our LAVC that do not run PMDF. Internet
- > mail to these systems are forwarded by the PMDF host
- > Meena.CC.URegina.CA using the decnet channel as follows:
- >
- >!
- >! Rewrite rules for the D (MAIL-11) channel
- >!
- >ponna $U%ponna@DECNET-MAIL
- >regie1 $U%regie1@DECNET-MAIL
- >regie2 $U%regie2@DECNET-MAIL
- >Lang $U%Lang@DECNET-MAIL
- >
- >d 733 nox_env_to header_733
- >DECNET-MAIL
- >ponna ponna
- >regie1 regie1
- >regie2 regie2
- >Lang Lang
- >
- > The trouble with this is that on all out-going mail from these
- > systems, the From: field shows up as just user@host (e.g.
- > User@Lang) which is not replyable.
- >
- > What we would like to have is
- > the From: address to be User%Lang@Meena.CC.URegina.CA. Please
- > explain how this can be accomplished?
-
- Add $E$F's to each of the rewrite rules so that they only work on forward
- pointing envelope addresses.
-
- ponna $E$F$U%ponna@DECNET-MAIL
- regie1 $E$F$U%regie1@DECNET-MAIL
- regie2 $E$F$U%regie2@DECNET-MAIL
- Lang $E$F$U%Lang@DECNET-MAIL
-
- Then remove the ponna, regie1, regie2, and Lang from the D channel. Also,
- get rid of the header_733 unless you really need that for some reason:
-
- d 733 nox_env_to
- DECNET-MAIL
-
- The problem with what you had is that for mail passing from, say, PONNA through
- your PMDF system to the outside world, the PONNA rewrite rule was being
- invoked and rewriting the reverse pointing PONNA addresses to user@ponna
- (which is what that rule says to do). As it turns out, you only need rules
- for PONNA, et. al. for inbound mail for those systems at which point you
- do want to see the address user@ponna. And thus the addition of the $E$F to
- the rewrite rules for PONNA, et. al. (so that the rules only fire for
- inbound mail for those systems and then only affect envelope addresses).
-
- Dan
-