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- From: madison@tgv.com (Matt Madison)
- Subject: Re: Also need rewrite rules help
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.174848.26485@news.arc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: The Foundation for Dinner Peas
- References: <1993Jan10.170816.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:48:48 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- In article <1993Jan10.170816.1@woods.ulowell.edu>, byrnee@woods.ulowell.edu writes:
- >To do this from VAXmail I would type:
- >
- >TO: mx%"'MRGATE::AM::username'@nodex.ulowell.edu"
- >
- >What rewrite rule would essentially translate:
- >
- >username@nodex.ulowell.edu to 'MRGATE::AM::username'@nodex.ulowell.edu ?
- >
- >I have tried every combination I can think of, but nothing works. I would
- >like to avoid the obvious, which is setting all VAXmail accounts to Mailworks.
- >(NOT a pretty solution for 13,000 accounts!)
-
- What I would suggest is to set up a new domain name - call it something
- like mrgate.nodex.ulowell.edu or something like that - with an MX record
- pointing to nodex. That makes the rewrite simple:
-
- "<{user}@mrgate.nodex.ulowell.edu>" ->
- "<""MRGATE::AM::{user}""@nodex.ulowell.edu>"
-
- If you have MX V3.1C, you could also use the improved name_conversion interface
- in that version that lets you rewrite an entire address, so your users'
- return addresses would look cleaner. A bit of coding would be required,
- though.
-
- If you didn't want to add the extra record in the DNS, you should still be
- able to work it with the following pair of rewrite rules:
-
- "<""MRGATE::{anything}""@nodex.ulowell.edu>" ->
- "<""MRGATE::{anything}""@nodex.ulowell.edu>"
-
- and
-
- "<{user}@nodex.ulowell.edu>" -> "<""MRGATE::AM::{user}@nodex.ulowell.edu>"
-
- The first rewrite rule, which does nothing to the address, prevents the
- gatewayed addresses from getting rewritten any further.
-
- Using the extra DNS host name has the added advantage that users could then
- choose whether they wanted to use VMS Mail or MAILworks.
-
- -Matt
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