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- From: dboyes@is.rice.edu (David E Boyes)
- Subject: Re: profs / vm/ forwarding mail
- Message-ID: <Bt6q27.FMw@rice.edu>
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- Organization: Rice University
- References: <1992Aug10.185212.15@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> <BsxGMq.M34@wm-mercer.ca>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:08:30 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <BsxGMq.M34@wm-mercer.ca> carrollj@wm-mercer.ca (Jim Carroll) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug10.185212.15@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> dsc3jfs@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Jim Small) writes:
- >>What I need is a method on our KNET equiped VM system, is to be able to
- >>forward the mail to another stmp hosts (If it makes it easier, the
- >>id can be the same, but the address will be different)
-
- >1. First, become an expert in sendmail. :-)
-
- It's not nearly that complicated. Assuming that KNET has some
- kind of feature similar to the MAILER keyword in IBM's SMTP
- implementation, all you need to do is install a recent version of
- the Columbia/Princeton VM MAILER code (available on the most
- recent VM Workshop tapes or from LISTSERV@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU),
- and configure KNET to send all incoming mail through the MAILER
- DVM.
-
- The MAILER record in the IBM SMTP implementation tells the SMTP
- machine to send all incoming messages to the identified virtual
- machine for final delivery. MAILER gets them, looks up the
- userid, and then if forwarding is necessary, regenerates the
- BSMTP header and reprocesses it -- presto, remote delivery.
-
- There is no charge for the Columbia/Princeton MAILER code, and I
- strongly recommend it to any VM sites.
-
- >I suppose one loose alternative (you'll have to test it, of course)
- >is to add aliases on all systems, pointing out the proper hosts for
- >the given mail in question.
-
-
- This is rather unwieldy, given large numbers of users and hosts.
- The other method is user-controllable.
-
- >Jim Carroll - carrollj@wm-mercer.ca
-
-
- --
- David Boyes
- dboyes@rice.edu
-