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- From: moeller@gwdgv1.gwdg.de
- Subject: Some UCX 2.0 questions & comments
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- Organization: GWDG Goettingen, F.R.Germany
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:29:55 GMT
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- I did receive ECOs for SMTP (-01), LPD (-02), FTP (-01), and PING;
- both LPD and SMTP seem to be basically stable with these patches.
-
- I immediately retracted the "new" UCX$FTP.EXE, because its user interface
- has completely changed, without any accompanying documentation -
- also I noticed, playing with the new command qualifiers, that end of /INPUT
- makes it either crash or loop.
-
- However, maybe someone can comment on the following points:
-
- LPD Question:
- What "control file" entries are relevant to the LPD server?
- I only know that "-C" goes into /NOTE, as does the sender's hostname;
- there appears to be some way to influence /PARAMETERS (the ECO-02
- release notes mention a fix in that area). Any way to influence
- /FORM and /SETUP? How could one "serve" more than e.g. one /FORM
- per printer to the unix world?
-
- genaral Question:
- What is the significance of UCX$INET_DOMAIN (if at all)?
- I know what UCX$BIND_DOMAIN means, and have no idea what
- *other* kind of "domain" has come into play here.
- BTW, I see *no* problem with SMTP, although I have INET_DOMAIN
- equal to BIND_DOMAIN, and also a fully qualified INET_HOST.
-
- SMTP question:
- What does /RELAY exactly mean? I find that DECnet/SMTP relaying
- handles addresses (rather unwieldy style)
- "node::user"@ucx_host
- in both directions - is there any more to it? I couldn't get
- SMTP source routing (<@ucx_host:user@otherhost>) to work,
- although it seems to behave a little different depending on /RELAY.
-
- apparent SMTP bug:
- As of ECO1, there is some strange interaction between /SUBSTITUTE
- and /RELAY. Without /RELAY:
- /subs=(name=...,hidden) ...... "From:" and "Return-Path:" modified
- /subs=(name=...,NOhidden) .... "Reply-To:" added, headers unmodified
- With /RELAY, both 'hidden' and 'NOhidden' give the latter effect.
- What of those is expected behaviour? (I can't guess it from the doc.)
-
- SMTP quirk:
- Mail delivered by SMTP into VMSMAIL has a trailing <CR> on all of its
- SMTP header lines (not a pretty view when you READ/EDIT that Mail).
- Also, the UCX-provided "Received:" header is lacking a ";" preceding
- the date - admittedly that's nit-picking.
-
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