MCCALPIN%FSU.MFENET@NMFECC.ARPA (05/28/87)
We have a VMS machine acting as a communications gateway between our many mostly incompatible campus nets, and we have an ULTRIX machine to act as a DECNET to TCP/IP gateway. The ULTRIX machine is running the standard (DEC supplied ?) generic ARPA sendmail configuration file. I have figured out how to send mail from DECNET to SMTP mailers: ULTRIX_host::"name@UNIX_host" (An extra set of quotes is needed if this is to be used as a forwarding address). The big question is how to send mail the other way. I have tried every conceivable combination of "DECNET_host::name"@ULTRIX_host that I can think of, but the ARPA address parser converts the :: to .. before it can realize that it wants to send the address to the Mail-11 program. Any helpful hints would be appreciated. Please reply directly, as I do not usually read this list. john d mccalpin mccalpin@fsu.mfenet mcalpin@fsu.bitnet (mccalpin%fsu.mfenet@nmfecc.arpa)
wcwells@MICA.BERKELEY.EDU.UUCP (05/29/87)
In reply to: Date: Thu, 28 May 87 08:33:18 PDT From: MCCALPIN%FSU.MFENET@nmfecc.arpa To: INFO-VAX@KL.SRI.COM Comment: From MCCALPIN@FSU.MFENET on 28-MAY-1987 11:27:12.66 EDT Subject: DECNET Mail <-> SMTP ... The big question is how to send mail the other way. I have tried every conceivable combination of "DECNET_host::name"@ULTRIX_host that I can think of, but the ARPA address parser converts the :: to .. before it can realize that it wants to send the address to the Mail-11 program. Any helpful hints would be appreciated. Please reply directly, as I do not usually read this list. john d mccalpin mccalpin@fsu.mfenet mcalpin@fsu.bitnet (mccalpin%fsu.mfenet@nmfecc.arpa) Some possible address formats are: node#user@gatewaydomainname user%node@gatewaydomainname user%localdomainname@gatewaydomainname I believe the number sign (#) has been traditionally used as a subsitution for "::" in the local part of an internet/decnet gateway address. However, the delimiter character used is dependant upon what has been programmed at the mail gateway. There are two place the conversion might be done: (1) sendmail.cf file, (2) the DECNET mail sender (in /usr/net/bin ?). Have you tried checking the gateway documentation or contacting your gateway postmaster? Bill Wells postmaster@jade.berkeley.edu
FRY@JPNKEKVM.BITNET (Alan Fry) (05/30/87)
Have you tried exclamation mark (!) to replace ::? I seem to remember this used by ARPA to specify path for mail.