[net.mail] How do you expand foo!bar to foo1!foo::bar in sendmail.cf

barry@muddcs.UUCP (Barry Lustig) (10/26/84)

Quite often we have the need to send mail to VMS systems that will in turn
forward it to another VMS system over DECNET.  As I said in the title
I need to expand the address line of any mail going out or passing through
our site from:

		foo!bar		to	foo1!foo::bar

I want to do this automatically in the sendmail configuration file.  Can 
someone out there help me?

				Thanks in Advance,
					Barry


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lew@t4test.UUCP (Lew Mullen) (10/30/84)

>From: barry@muddcs.UUCP (Barry Lustig)
>
>Quite often we have the need to send mail to VMS systems that will in turn
>forward it to another VMS system over DECNET.  
>
>I want to do this automatically in the sendmail configuration file.  Can
>someone out there help me?


There may be no need to do this ... since when you dial-up a VMS 
system on a DECNET you can SET HOST to any other site on the DECNET, 
you can dial-in directly to the target site.  If the UUCP software is
up on both systems, no problem ! ... but if it's not ... now what ?
Is this system running Eunice ?

Even if you did get the VMS system to forward, how can you get it to
forward  *again*,  to a Unix site ?  This would allow use of our
DECnet's dedicated, high-speed, syncronous interstate lines.