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- Subject: Problem with printer channel?
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- From: c.chaundy@its.unimelb.edu.au
- Date: 16 Aug 1992 16:41:41 +1000
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- Prior to PMDF V4.1, we had a simplistic printer channel setup which just
- read the list of files to be processed in MASTER.COM and took the 'to'
- address and used the /note switch to print the message out on SYS$PRINT.
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- With V4.1, I want to upgrade to use the standard PMDF printer channel and
- wondered how it reacted if the mailbox part of the 'to' address was not a
- AVPL to avoid having to re-educate users and make bulk changes to a huge
- number of directory channel files - I got the answer - *badly*. But what
- was worse was instead of generating a bounce message to the postmaster and
- the originator, it generated a message to the postmaster and the recipient!
- Of course, the recipient address was illegal (no AVPL) so a groovy little
- mail loop started up :-).
-
- Apart from the fact that I will have to move to AVPL pairs (it would have
- been nice to default mailboxes that are not AVPL pairs to just 'Attention:'),
- I assume this other behaviour is most definitely a bug in the printer channel.
-
- Chris Chaundy (Technical Manager, Networks)
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- Information Technology Services, Thomas Cherry Building,
- The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052 Australia
- Phone: +61 3 344 7045 Fax: +61 3 347 4803
- Internet: C.Chaundy@its.unimelb.EDU.AU (X.121 505233430003)
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