starner@psuvax1.UUCP (Mark L. Starner) (01/04/85)
After seeing all the discussion of gateways, etc.... I thought
I would set the record straight on how to use the gateway onto
BITNET at Psuvax1.
The address is as follows: site!site!site!psuvax1!user@bitnethost.bitnet
also: site!site!site!psuvax1!user%bitnethost.bitnet
altenatively: @psuvax1.uucp:user@bitnethost.bitnet will also work.
To send mail from a bitnet site (IBM VM/CMS) to a UUCP site use
the following:
edit a file that looks similar to this:
From: SE7@PSUVM
To: (see syntax below)
Subject: Test of a note file
this is a test
The "To:" line may look like:
1) site!site!site!uucphost!user (you do the routing)
2) user@host.uucp (we do the routing -- won't ALWAYS work as our autorouting
doesn't know about all uucp sites)
get this file to MAILER@PSUVAX1 CLASS M with a filetype of MAIL.
From a VM/CMS Site, the following sequence of commands will do it:
CP SPOOL PUNCH TO RSCS CLASS M
TAG DEV PUN PSUVAX1 MAILER
PUNCH filename filetype filemode
CP SPOOL PUNCH CLOSE
Note: filetype in PUNCH statement above MUST be MAIL.
If there are any questions, contact me, I will attempt to answer them.
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Mark Starner
Computer Science Department (814) 863-0392
303 Whitmore Lab {akgua,allegra,ihnp4}!psuvax1!starner
The Pennsylvania State University starner@penn-state (csnet)
University Park, PA 16802 starner@psuvax1 (bitnet)
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Mark Starner
Computer Science Department (814) 863-0392
303 Whitmore Lab {akgua,allegra,ihnp4}!psuvax1!starner
The Pennsylvania State University starner@penn-state (csnet)
University Park, PA 16802 starner@psuvax1 (bitnet)hokey@gang.UUCP (Hokey) (01/07/85)
Mark Starner tells us: > > After seeing all the discussion of gateways, etc.... I thought > I would set the record straight on how to use the gateway onto > BITNET at Psuvax1. > > The address is as follows: site!site!site!psuvax1!user@bitnethost.bitnet > also: site!site!site!psuvax1!user%bitnethost.bitnet > altenatively: @psuvax1.uucp:user@bitnethost.bitnet will also work. There is a potential problem when using a hybrid route (site!user@place). Specifically, the route is ambiguous. Some sites bang-parse, while others 822 parse. If any of the sites before psuvax1 decide to 822 parse, mail will be messed up. If sites along the way have a decent path parser which uses an edge database to determine parsing, there is a significantly reduced chance of error. psuvax1 *should* allow mail to be sent like this: ...!psuvax1!bitnethost.bitnet!user which avoids the ambiguity. The second example, which uses a % instead of a @, may also be screwed up by sites along the way who use the % as a delimiter for Other Things. [Please forgive the inclusion of the first few lines of the referenced article; I know it isn't the Fun thing to do!] -- Hokey ..ihnp4!plus5!hokey 314-725-9492
ag5@pucc-k (Henry Mensch) (01/08/85)
<<>>
Unfortunately, that's the risk you take by using this
funny stuff with the !'s ... If we all did BITNET or ARPA, not
only would this problem not exist, but the whole world would
do it's business much faster..
Sigh!
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