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- Date: 13 AUG 92 19:40:36 GMT
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- X-RFC822-From: adelman (Kenneth Adelman) @ TGV.COM
- From: adelman@TGV.COM
- Subject: Re: SMTP from other cluster members
- Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
- Message-ID: <2380BEC913AUG92194036@TGV.COM>
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- >> > We have only one node here that runs Multinet. Recently, this node
- >> > : MAIL> mail
- >> > : To: vax01::smtp%"user@unix.machine"
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- >> This is the only option. The mail flag indicates whether or not
- >> your cluster is homogenous; i.e., whether or not the nodes need to go
- >> over DECnet to reach each other. If you aren't running MultiNet on all
- >> of the nodes, then your cluster isn't homogenous. There is no way to
- >> tell VMSmail that your cluster is "somewhat homogenous".
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- > I beg to differ, Ken, but there is a way to do it. If you specify the
- > to address as __vax01::smtp%"user@unix.machine" (note the TWO
- > underscores), it will force the mail to be sent to vax01, even in an
- > otherwise homogenous cluster. We have used this in our cluster, where
- > we only have JNet and the Profs% transport on one machine in our
- > cluster.
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- I wasn't aware of this, I don't use VMSliam myself.
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- This still doesn't help you with using REPLY to answer the mail.
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- Ken
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