PHIL@UIUCVMD.BITNET (Phil Howard) (11/26/86)
I am planning the design of a new type of bulletin board system for IBM VM/CMS systems. Due to the inherent limitations of this operating system to 8 characters for userids, and the fact that I would like to have mail for this bbs directed to topics as userids, I need to bypass this limit. The way I best see to do this is to create a psuedo-node and run a "gateway" to it somehow. One problem I see with this is that mail is gatewayed into BITNET, all that remains normally is the RFC822 header. Sometimes this does not indicate the real destination that SMTP really knew. I am inquiring into the possibilities of getting mail from the gateway in BSMTP envelopes. What I would like to know is if there are any alternative ways to get this information (the real destination) and if any new standards development is planning to address this. Thanks. /Phil/ka9wgn