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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!bsu-cs!news.cs.indiana.edu!syscon!gator!inland!cmkrnl!infopiz!mccall!ipmdf-newsgate!list
  2. From: jeremy@vsm.com.au (Jeremy Begg)
  3. Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
  4. Subject: Erroneous output from CONFIGURE.COM
  5. Message-ID: <01GODROQKJGM0002HW@vsm.com.au>
  6. Date: 4 Sep 92 03:59:56 GMT
  7. Organization: The Internet
  8. Lines: 80
  9. Return-Path: <epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU>
  10. Resent-Date: 04 Sep 1992 09:59:56 -0600 (CST)
  11. Resent-From: epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU
  12. Errors-To: epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU
  13. Resent-Message-ID: <01GOCTQ4MLGY95PBBL@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU>
  14. X-Vms-To: IN%"info-pmdf@ymir.claremont.edu"
  15. Mime-Version: 1.0
  16. Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
  17. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT
  18.  
  19. I recently installed PMDF V4.1-2 and used the CONFIGURE.COM procedure to
  20. generate the initial configuration.  I have found two problems with it so
  21. far, which other people might like to know about.
  22.  
  23. 1) The local host information didn't work.  Here's part of CMDF.CNF:
  24.  
  25. !
  26. ! Rewrite rules for the local host/VAXcluster
  27. !
  28. SERF                            $U@r.s.g.a
  29. SERF.r.s.g.a                    $U@r.s.g.a
  30. WKVA                            $U@r.s.g.a
  31. WKVA.r.s.g.a                    $U@r.s.g.a
  32. WKVB                            $U@r.s.g.a
  33. WKVB.r.s.g.a                    $U@r.s.g.a
  34. WKVC                            $U@r.s.g.a
  35. WKVC.r.s.g.a                    $U@r.s.g.a
  36. r.s.g.a                         $U@r.s.g.a
  37.  
  38. l nox_env_to defragment charset7 us-ascii charset8 iso-8859-1
  39. r.s.g.a
  40.  
  41. The "r.s.g.a" rule was not generated by CONFIGURE.COM: when I tried to
  42. send a message to myself on SERF (the node I had just installed PMDF on) it
  43. resulted in an infinite bounced message loop, which didn't go away until I
  44. added the "r.s.g.a" rewrite rule.
  45.  
  46.  
  47. 2) I  included a few DECnet-mail hosts:
  48.  
  49. !
  50. ! Rewrite rules for the D (MAIL-11) channel
  51. !
  52. paper                                   $U@paper
  53. pencil                                  $U@pencil
  54. ruler                                   $U@ruler
  55.  
  56. d 733 nox_env_to defragment linelength 255 charset7 us-ascii charset8 iso-8859-1
  57. DECNET-MAIL
  58. paper                                   paper
  59. pencil                                  pencil
  60. ruler                                   ruler
  61.  
  62. But when I tried to send a message to a user on PAPER, the message was
  63. encoded using BASE64 and was not readable:
  64.  
  65. >From:   SNAGWY::IN%"SYSPRGG@r.s.g.a"  "Jeremy Begg"
  66. >To:     IN%"sysprgg@paper"
  67. >CC:
  68. >Subj:   This time the test is to paper
  69. >
  70. >Return-path: <SYSPRGG@r.s.g.a>
  71. >Received: from r.s.g.a by r.s.g.a (PMDF #2395 ) id
  72. > <01GODRIN20PYAXB0VS@r.s.g.a>; Fri, 4 Sep 1992 09:38:15 +0930
  73. >Date: 04 Sep 1992 09:38:15 +0930
  74. >From: Jeremy Begg <SYSPRGG@r.s.g.a>
  75. >Subject: This time the test is to paper
  76. >To: sysprgg@paper
  77. >Message-id: <01GODRIN2K0OAXB0VS@r.s.g.a>
  78. >X-VMS-To: IN%"sysprgg@paper"
  79. >MIME-version: 1.0
  80. >Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
  81. >Content-transfer-encoding: BASE64
  82. >
  83. >QW5vdGhlciB0ZXN0LCB3aXRob3V0IGEgZG9tYWluIG5hbWUuDQoNCg==
  84.  
  85. The original message was just a line of text.
  86.  
  87. The first problem I could fix myself, but I don't know what to do about the
  88. second.
  89.  
  90. Thanks,
  91.  
  92.         Jeremy Begg
  93.  
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  99.