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- From: goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET (Hunter Goatley)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
- Subject: RE: Default MX transport problem
- Message-ID: <0095F51A.6CFD9280.7585@WKUVX1.BITNET>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 11:35:37 GMT
- Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
- Lines: 31
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- robbie@winkle.bhpese.oz.au writes:
- >
- >I recently saw an article which described a way of setting MX as the default
- >mail transport (namely SET TRANSPORT MX%) which works fine. I can mail
- >to people on my local host and ...whoa... it uses the MX transport. Very
- >nice. However, now when I want to mail to my unix buddies, I get strange
- >behaviour from mail. The following example best describes it.
- >
- >MAIL> SEND
- >To: "russell@cerberus"
- >
- >MAIL> ! Hey, I haven't finished yet...
- >MAIL> ! Let's try something else...
- >MAIL> SEND
- >To: MX%"russell@cerberus"
- >CC: <Rest of stuff deleted. Take it from me, it works fine!>
- >
- >Why can't I leave off the MX% when mailing to a remote host. If I
- >can only use the transport for the local host then I don't think it
- >will be all that useful.
- >
- VMS Mail treats anything in quotes as a comment (like a personal
- name). VMS Mail discards it before handing anything to MX, so you end
- up with Mail acting like you didn't give an address. You can always
- apply the "@" patch to Mail, which can be found in the [CONTRIB]
- directory in MX_ROOT:.
-
- Hunter
- ------
- Hunter Goatley, VMS Systems Programmer, Western Kentucky University
- goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET, 502-745-5251
-