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- Date: 09 SEP 92 17:51:16 GMT
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- X-RFC822-From: adelman (Kenneth Adelman) @ TGV.COM
- From: adelman@TGV.COM
- Subject: Re: POP3 server with PMDF personal aliases.
- Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
- Message-ID: <42E0013C09SEP92175116@TGV.COM>
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- > PMDF personal aliases don't seem to be recognized by the POP3 server. A
- > faculty member is trying to send broadcast messages to a lot of users
- > without every username appearing in the message header. We get
- > satisfactory results with VMS Mail using IN%<personal-alias>, with
- > <personal-alias> pointing to a distribution file, but not via Eudora on a
- > Mac to the POP3 server. Unfortunately, nicknames in Eudora don't work
- > either because it seems to expand them also. The Eudora FM (of RTFM fame)
- > doesn't seem to mention anything about how to make nicknames terse.
-
- > Any advice for the perpetually verbose?
-
- Talk to Innosoft.
-
- When you READ mail from Eudora, MultiNet's POP server is used to
- retrieve the messages, but when you SEND mail, Eudora talks directly
- to the SMTP port and hence directly to PMDF. MultiNet isn't involved
- (other than at the TCP/IP layers) in sending messages at all.
-
- Ken
-