manager@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu (Cris Fuhrman, Systems Manager) (03/16/89)
Salut,
Can anyone tell me how to change the mail prefix on ANU_NEWS V5.7?
Whenever I want to send mail to the author of an article i.e. REPLY
command, it uses IN:: as the prefix of the address. On our VAX we have to
do something like INET%"address". Can someone tell me how to set up
ANU_NEWS to do this? I looked and looked in the docs for some logical
name for the mailer, but wasn't able to find it. Perhaps I didn't look
well enough.
-Cris
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Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.gih900@csc.anu.oz (Geoff Huston) (03/23/89)
In article <59@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu>, manager@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu (Cris Fuhrman, Systems Manager) writes: > Can anyone tell me how to change the mail prefix on ANU_NEWS V5.7? > > Whenever I want to send mail to the author of an article i.e. REPLY > command, it uses IN:: as the prefix of the address. On our VAX we have to > do something like INET%"address". Can someone tell me how to set up > ANU_NEWS to do this? I looked and looked in the docs for some logical > name for the mailer, but wasn't able to find it. Perhaps I didn't look > well enough. There is a mail configuration file which describes the rules to map internet addresses into something Mail-11 can comprehend. The file is NEWS_MANAGER:NEWS_ADDRESS.CNF. Edit this file to use INET% as an internet address prefix. The following is the distributed news_address.cnf file: # news_address.cnf # # This file contains the address translation rules, which allows site specific # translation of internet-style address formats into formats acceptable to VMS # MAIL. # # The file has the following format: # # (in column 1) is a comment line - the line is ignored # internet_address rebuild_rule # internet_address rebuild_rule # ... # # The internet address field must start in column 1 and must not contain space # characters. The '*' character may be used to force a wildcard match with the # address being tested. The '?' character matches any single character. # # The rebuild rule must be separated from the internet address by at least one # space character. The '\' character is used as the escape character: normally # it is used to specify match subsitiutions. (the '\' character itself is # specified by the sequence '\\' # # For example the following rules extract any internet addresses which mention # the "anu" subdomain and use decnet addressing - otherwise the mail is # forwarded via decnet to node "gateway" and directed to the PMDF mail handler # on that node: # # this is an example address cnf file # 1. user@node.anu.oz is mapped to the decnet address node::user *@*.anu.* \002::\001 # 2. user@node.anu is mapped to the decnet address node::user *@*.anu \002::\001 # 3. any other internet format address is mapped to the PMDF gateway system. *@* "gateway::in%""\001@\002""" # 4. DECnet format addresses are left alone *::* \001::\002 # 5. anything else is also left alone * \001 -- Geoff Huston gih900@csc.anu.oz.au