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- From: ned@innosoft.com (Ned Freed)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
- Subject: RE: Problems with cc:Mail channel.
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- Date: 12 Sep 92 21:41:51 GMT
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- > I'm having two problems with the cc:Mail channel under PMDF.
- > The first, of irritance value only, is that it manipulates spaces
- > inside quotes in names to underscores in it's output file namem,
- > including those around the "AT" which signifies the post office to go
- > to, so it's treated as one user. We've got around this with a small
- > program on the DOS side to change it back, and using cc:Mail's
- > directory propogation so we don't have to specify the post office.
-
- I gather from this that you're entering cc:Mail addresses as
-
- "user AT postoffice"@ccmail.whatever
-
- on the Internet/PMDF side of things. This is incorrect and unsupported. The
- proper form to use is
-
- user%postoffice@ccmail.whatever
-
- where any spaces in the user part are replace with underscores and any
- commas are replaced with plus signs. This is the supported format; it is
- also the format that will be produced by the slave channel program.
-
- > The second problem is that it only works one way. It creates
- > the output file just fine, in the correct format, but it doesn't seem
- > to look at the input file specified. EG:
-
- What are you doing to force processing of the input file? Processing
- is not automatic -- it cannot be since PMDF has no way of sensing the
- creation of the input file. You have to arrange to do a
-
- $ @PMDF_ROOT:[EXE]MASTER CC_LOCAL POLL
-
- at the proper time. The periodic job can be told to do this when it runs if you
- mark the channel with the master channel keyword.
-
- > Obviously I'm doing something wrong as others have got this to
- > work - can anyone offer any suggestions? The PC accesses the
- > filesystem via PC-NFS through Multinet NFS on the VAX side.
-
- What version of PMDF are you running. There have been a number of changes
- and enhancements since the initial release. Please contact service@innosoft.com
- and request the most recent version if you're not running at least V4.1-10.
-
- Ned
-