NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/vmsnet/mail/pmdf/2624/text0000.txt

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Below is an error I got replying to a message I received. I realize why I got
the error.  In PMDF on our vax (DUKEMC) I have put in an alias for dryfo001 and
pointed it to [e-mail] (my workstation).

This has worked fine for some time.  However, just found a case where it does
not.  Someone sent me mail from a Bitnet node (DUKEMVS) to dryfo001@dukemc.  My
alias forward sent it to me at deneb.mc.duke.edu, but the return address was
setup so that it would only work we replying through the PMDF system (which it
was not) -- i.e. [e-mail].  Normal SMTP internet mail works fine as my
reply goes directly to the sender and not through PMDF.  I suspect I need a
rewrite rule or something to prevent this?  Am I doing something I am not
supposed to? On systems connected to the PMDF system, I want replies to go
through our Bitnet connection, but for cirumstances such as this, we need to go
through an SMTP/Bitnet gateway or back through the PMDF system?

Thanks in advance,

--Jim Dryfoos

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:06:53 -0500
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 dukemvs.bitnet (tcp)... 550 Host unknown
554 [e-mail]... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name server)

   ----- Unsent message follows -----
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:03:39 -0500 (EST)
From: "James D. Dryfoos" <dryfo001>
Subject: Re: BBS access
To: [e-mail]
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII



On 19 Nov 1992 [e-mail] wrote:

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