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- From: dan@innosoft.com (Daniel C. Newman)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
- Subject: RE: Erroneous output from CONFIGURE.COM
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- Date: 3 Sep 92 11:05:36 GMT
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- > I recently installed PMDF V4.1-2 and used the CONFIGURE.COM procedure to
- > generate the initial configuration. I have found two problems with it so
- > far, which other people might like to know about.
- >
- > 1) The local host information didn't work. Here's part of CMDF.CNF:
- >
- > !
- > ! Rewrite rules for the local host/VAXcluster
- > !
- > SERF $U@r.s.g.a
- > SERF.r.s.g.a $U@r.s.g.a
- > WKVA $U@r.s.g.a
- > WKVA.r.s.g.a $U@r.s.g.a
- > WKVB $U@r.s.g.a
- > WKVB.r.s.g.a $U@r.s.g.a
- > WKVC $U@r.s.g.a
- > WKVC.r.s.g.a $U@r.s.g.a
- > r.s.g.a $U@r.s.g.a
- >
- > l nox_env_to defragment charset7 us-ascii charset8 iso-8859-1
- > r.s.g.a
- >
- > The "r.s.g.a" rule was not generated by CONFIGURE.COM: when I tried to
- > send a message to myself on SERF (the node I had just installed PMDF on) it
- > resulted in an infinite bounced message loop, which didn't go away until I
- > added the "r.s.g.a" rewrite rule.
-
- There is no problem with CONFIGURE, per se, but rather with how you answered
- the questions. The host name which is associated with the local (l) channel
- is that given in response to the question "Official local host name". No
- rewrite rule is generated for this host: it is assumed to have been a host name
- which was given earlier in the configuration query/response session. Ned just
- went ahead and added some additional DCL to CONFIGURE.COM to support what you
- did.
-
- > 2) I included a few DECnet-mail hosts:
- >
- > !
- > ! Rewrite rules for the D (MAIL-11) channel
- > !
- > paper $U@paper
- > pencil $U@pencil
- > ruler $U@ruler
- >
- > d 733 nox_env_to defragment linelength 255 charset7 us-ascii charset8 iso-8859-1
- > DECNET-MAIL
- > paper paper
- > pencil pencil
- > ruler ruler
- >
- > But when I tried to send a message to a user on PAPER, the message was
- > encoded using BASE64 and was not readable:
-
- This was a bug in the interaction between linelength and charset7 which was
- fixed early on in 4.1 but your 4.1-2 tape pre-dates that fix. The mail you
- sent must have had some long lines (> 255 characters) and PMDF went ahead and
- wrapped the lines but also encoded them when that wasn't necessary.
-
- Fortunately, there is a simple work around: remove the "charset7 us-ascii" from
- your d and l channels. It's superfluous anyhow since charset7 us-ascii is the
- default. Removing it will, however, remedy the problem.
-
- Dan
-