martin@hq.af.mil (Gregory.J.Martin) (09/10/90)
I help run a VINES network with 250 nodes. We're using the SMTP gateway to send mail over the Internet. To make things easier for the users (er, networkers!) I create dummy users with one-line profiles to redirect their mail to the gateway. This allows the networker to send mail to Joe Schmoe and the dummy user converts it JSchmoe@some.host.on.the.net. I've come up with another idea to provide the same functionality. That is, create a List named Joe Schmoe with a single entry (JSchmoe@some...). What I'm concerned about are systems resources. Does a "List" use less resources than a "User"? Will this work (my gateway is down and I can't test it today) Thanks...Greg
jabusch@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Jabusch) (09/20/90)
martin@hq.af.mil (Gregory.J.Martin) writes: >I help run a VINES network with 250 nodes. We're using the SMTP gateway to >send mail over the Internet. To make things easier for the users (er, >networkers!) I create dummy users with one-line profiles to redirect their >mail to the gateway. This allows the networker to send mail to Joe Schmoe and >the dummy user converts it JSchmoe@some.host.on.the.net. I've come up with We do the same thing. This works fine for a limited number of users. Each user entry takes about 2KB for the profile information in the StreetTalk database, which is very little on a large hard disk. >another idea to provide the same functionality. That is, create a List named >Joe Schmoe with a single entry (JSchmoe@some...). What I'm concerned about are >systems resources. Does a "List" use less resources than a "User"? Will this >work (my gateway is down and I can't test it today) Thanks...Greg No, this won't work, because list entires are automatically verified via StreetTalk, and must be valid StreetTalk IDs. We tried this also, out of curiosity. Finally, the same goes for nicknames. One thing we haven't tried yet is the "inclusion" feature under STDA. It supposedly will handle this sort of thing. However, we use wildcards extensively for official distribution around here, and the wildcards would not translate to these addresses, I'm betting. Overall, we prefer the dummy ID with forwarding mail entry. -john -- John W. Jabusch INTERNET: jabusch@cerl.cecer.army.mil MILNET: jabusch@osiris.arpa US Mail: USA CERL, PO Box 4005 Newmark Drive, Champaign, Il 61824-4005 Voice/Phone: Commercial (217) 352-6511