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- From: ned@innosoft.com (Ned Freed)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
- Subject: RE: BN_MASTER and SEND/FILE
- Message-ID: <01GOGMX45TNM9FM7LA@INNOSOFT.COM>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 17:58:50 GMT
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- > I am running PMDF 4.0, JNET 3.4, Multinet 3.0, and VMS 5.4-3.
-
- > We have a connection to an MVS machine on our campus via BITNET. The
- > mailer on that machine really wants the External Writer field to be set
- > to the destination user. If this is not done, it parses the headers for
- > the "To:" line, which causes unpleasant results.
-
- Mailers that parse the To: line for envelope information are fundamentally
- busted. It is totally unacceptable to implement this even as an option.
-
- > By default, the SEND/FILE command comes from Joiner with "/OPTIONS" set
- > to "". I see from the source that the Options file seems to be used to
- > create a "/OPTIONS=blah" switch on the SEND/FILE that BN_MASTER performs.
-
- > Here are my questions:
-
- > 1. Can I add a "W=" to the options file to have it set use the options
- > as follows:
-
- > SEND/FILE/OPTIONS="W="
-
- Sure. Just add a line saying
-
- OPTIONS=W=
-
- to the option file for the channel you use to connect to this system.
-
- This isn't documented but it should work fine.
-
- > 2. Joiner Tech Support tells me it is safe to include "/OPTIONS="W=" to
- > have the external writer field filled in on each SEND. Is that true?
- > Are there any NJE mail software packages that would not like this?
-
- There is no way to ever be sure of this. BITNET simply doesn't have any rules
- about this sort of thing. As a result you may find all sorts of bizarre usage
- out there. All I can say for sure is that I have never seen a mailer that's
- sensitive in this way. However, my experience also tells me that when it comes
- to BITNET there is almost certainly such a system out there.
-
- > If there are, what is the best way to have this option apply to our
- > specific host (or a specific queue)?
-
- It is actually hard to have it any other way, since this is a per-channel
- option. Most configurations usually have dozens of BITNET channels. I would
- recommend setting up a special channel that is only used for this host
- with an appropriate associated option file. This way there is no chance of
- this option information ever messing up anyone else.
-
- Ned
-