brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes) (09/17/87)
I'm trying to get an AT&T Unix PC running WIN TCP/IP to act as a mail gateway between Usenet and a TCP-based LAN. For example, assume the gateway Unix PC is called "gateway", and my machine "manta" is one of its Usenet neighbors. Say host "foo" is accessible to "gateway" via TCP. The gateway and all its TCP neighbors run sendmail, its Usenet neighbors just have HDB uucp. I would like to be able to send mail from manta to user "bar" on host "foo" through node "gateway", presumably using the syntax gateway!foo!bar. User bar should be able to reply to manta!brant@gateway. The question: what's involved in arranging this? I figured out that /bin/rmail had to be linked to something besides /bin/mail, since mail doesn't know from TCP; I tried linking rmail to /usr/lib/sendmail, and that worked, sort of. There were two problems: gateway couldn't grok uucp addressing style for TCP hosts, i.e., foo!bar was a losing syntax. If I sent mail from manta to "gateway!bar@foo" (my mailer does not assign higher precedence to '@'), uucp would rmail to bar@foo, and gateway handles that fine. Unfortunately, then user bar gets mail with a return address of "uucp@gateway", completely losing any reference to manta and/or brant. I won't go on... the point is, if you have such a configuration working (even if Unix PC's aren't necessarily involved), where you're using WIN TCP/IP to gateway Usenet/TCP mail, I would very much like to hear from you. Thanks! -- Brant Cheikes ARPA: brant@linc.cis.upenn.edu UUCP: rutgers!cbmvax!cgh!manta!brant Department of Computer and Information Science / University of Pennsylvania