ag5@pucc-i (Henry C. Mensch) (09/22/84)
<Die you ignorant bug! Die, die!!>
In my inquiries about gateways to/from UUCP, ARPA/CSNET,
and BITNET I have come across a variety of helpful information.
That which is below describes wiscvm.ARPA, which acts as a gateway
from/to ARPA/CSNET and BITNET. This seems to work from UUCP sites
thru the ARPA gateway at Berkeley, also.
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BITNET - CSNET ELECTRONIC MAIL RELAY
The University of Wisconsin - Madison will provide electronic mail
relay service between BITNET and CSNET beginning September 10, 1984.
The gateway will reside on the WISCVM system (an IBM 4341 running
VM/SP rel. 3) which is a node on both CSNET (Arpanet componenet) and
BITNET.
All CSNET sites including those on Arpanet, Phonenet and Telenet will
be serviced by the relay. CSNET sites need not modify their current
mail systems. Mail originating on BITNET must be preceded by a Batch
SMTP header and must conform to RFC 733 or RFC 822.
Communication between BITNET hosts and the gateway, WISCVM, is achieved
via the IBM RSCS Networking Program. Communication between CSNET sites
and WISCVM is accomplished via the SMTP/TCP/IP protocols (in the case
of CSNET Phonenet, mail will also pass through the CSNET Phonenet relay,
CSNET-RELAY).
Procedure for sending mail from CSNET hosts to BITNET hosts:
Recipients at BITNET hosts should be addressed as:
user_id%bitnet_host.bitnet@wiscvm.arpa
Including the domains ("bitnet" and "arpa") is preferred but not
necessary.
Example: Mail to be sent to Jones at CUNYVM should be addressed as:
jones%cunyvm.bitnet@wiscvm.arpa
Mail text lines greater than 80 characters will be folded before
forwarding to BITNET hosts.
Procedure for sending mail from BITNET hosts to CSNET hosts:
The mail relay runs as a disconnected virtual machine, SMTPUSER,
on WISCVM. Mail to be relayed to CSNET and ARPANET hosts should be
PUNCHed, NoHeader, Class M, to SMTPUSER at WISCVM.
Mail must be in Batch SMTP format (see example below). The actual
SMTP mail header must be a legal RFC 822 or RFC 733 header.
The mail relay will strip off the Batch SMTP commands and re-write
any RFC 733 headers to be in compliance with RFC 822.
All BITNET addresses will be re-written so that they can be replied
to from CSNET hosts. Example:
Jones@CUNYVM will be re-written by the relay as:
jones%cunyvm.bitnet@wiscvm.arpa
Undeliverable mail will be returned to the address specified in the
Batch SMTP "MAIL FROM" command.
Batch SMTP Example:
HELO CUNYVM.BITNET -\
TICK 0001 !
VERB ON !-> Batch SMTP Commands
MAIL FROM:<JONES@CUNYVM.BITNET> !
RCPT TO:<ward@uwvax.arpa> !
DATA -/
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 84 17:02:23 cdt -\
To: ward@uwvax !-> SMTP Mail Header
From: jones@cunyvm.bitnet !
Subject: bsmtp example -/
Mail text (Note: a blank line between mail header and text is required.
A single character line containing only a period must
follow the mail text)
. <necessary as mentioned above>
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I hope this proves helpful to someone out there in net-land!.
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