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- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 19:57:53 GMT
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- From: "Daniel C. Newman" <DAN@INNOSOFT.COM>
- Subject: RE: question (thanks). More question
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- I run PMDF on a two-node VAXcluster. Each node has a valid internet host
- > name. PMDF images are loaded on both nodes but there is only one cluster-
- > wide MAIL$BATCH queue. I want different local host appear on the return
- > address when people send mail from different node. So I create a PMDF.CNF
- > for each node with the host name for l channel pointing to each node. This
- > works fine when I send mail from the node on which the MAIL$BATCH is running.
- > But when I send mail from the other node, the local host name apprears twice
- > in the return address, like
- > From: user@localhost@localhost
- > Any idea how this happen? Or is there other better way to do this? Thanks.
-
- The user@localhost@localhost sounds like you have something misconfigured.
- I'll leave that for Ned to answer.
-
- Now, if you want to run as though you have two distinct machines then you need
- two distinct PMDF configurations (separate PMDF_ROOT:[TABLE] and
- PMDF_ROOT:[QUEUE...] directories), and a way of ensuring that mail processing
- for host A runs on host A and not host B. This means two separate MAIL$BATCH
- queues. (Yes, you'll have to use different names for them and edit the proper
- pieces of PMDF_STARTUP.COM and PMDF_SUBMIT_JOBS.COM so as to relflect these
- changed queued names.)
-
- Now, my questionfor you is, if there is the same SYSUAF and mail profile for
- the two hosts, then why do you want to distinguish between the two systems
- in the first place?
-
- If you can distinguish on a per user basis whether their address should
- always be user@hosta or user@hostb, thene there is another approach which
- you can take which involves only a single PMDF configuration. This approach
- involves the use of the address reversal database.
-
- Dan
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