pag@tcsc3b2.UUCP (Philip A. Gross) (02/10/89)
Has anyone successfully used the HIDDEN NODE options to elm and smail?
We have a system which is connected to this one which we would like
to remain hidden as far as e-mail and other things are concerned.
This system, tcsc3b2, is used exclusively for use on the USENET and
for handling communications, etc. You might think of it as the
company's "gateway" machine. Perhaps I am using the term "gateway"
a bit loosely here. Nevertheless, the systems that we have connected
to it via a serial cable (STARLAN 10 is on the horizon) I would like
to remain unknown to USENET and anyone else outside of tcsc3b2. I have
done what I thought would be correct as far as implementing this
feature in both smail and elm, but when I go and examine the 'From:' in
the address of e-mail sent from one of the 'hidden' machines, it still
contains that system's uname.
What I am trying to achieve is when someone sends e-mail from the 'hidden'
machine to someone else via tcsc3b2, it should 'appear' to originate
from tcsc3b2. Have I thoroughly confused you???
Not to worry about return mail, all mail is forwarded from tcsc3b2 to the
'hidden' systems.
Your responses will be welcome.
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Philip A. Gross |INTERNET: pag%tcsc3b2@wb3ffv.ampr.org
The Computer Solution Co., Inc. |USENET: ...!wb3ffv!tcsc3b2!pag
1009 Sycamore Square, P.O. Box 716 |UUCP: tcsc3b2!pag (804)794-1514
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The opinions expressed here are strictly mine and nobody elses.
<< I haven't heard what I have to say about that yet. >> :-)david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) (02/11/89)
The best way to do this, in my opinion at least, is to get a domain
name for your organization. You fix up all the machines to generate
full domain names in mail headers (trivial to do if you have smail).
Then you tell the mapping project something like
tcsc3b2 .tcsc.com
which declares your 3b2 to be a gateway to the domain "tcsc.com".
(Or whatever your domain name ends up being).
No silliness is done on the part of smail. Nothing strange happens.
And it works fine too.
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