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- From: rdew@ALW.NIH.GOV (Bob Dew)
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
- Subject: Re: DECnet mail
- Message-ID: <gedbSpa0ts4jN1c1xe@alw.nih.gov>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 20:38:13 GMT
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- > Is there any way to convinced CUI/messages to send DECnet style mail
- > (HOST::USER)? I am using Ultrix sendmail so it will work as long as AMS does
- > attempt to send it. I thought I had turned off all address validation but
- apparently not.
-
-
- You probably can't teach messages how to validate addresses with this
- kind of syntax. But presumably your local network has some sort of
- Internet-to-DECnet SMTP relay host, capable of resolving DECnet mailing
- addresses?
-
- If that's the case, then you could work around the problem by defining a
- "dummy" domain, say ".DNET", in your AndrewSetup file, under
- "AMS_ValidDomainSuffixes:". Correspondingly, you'd list your
- Internet-to-DECnet relay host address under "AMS-ValidDomainRelays:", in
- AndrewSetup.
-
- It would be up to the messages user, then, to change addresses of the
- form, "HOST::USER", to "USER@HOST.DNET", when composing a mail message
- destined for a DECnet recipient.
-
- Messages would validate such address, and pass them along to the DECnet
- realy host.
-
- -Bob
-