"EAGLE::gareth%hermes.mod.uk"@RELAY.MOD.UK (06/14/91)
Received: by DniMail (v2.0); Fri Jun 14 14:31:55 1991 BST Received: from hawk.birds by eagle.birds (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01263; Fri, 14 Jun 91 14:31:45 BST From: gareth (Gareth Richards) Received: by hawk.birds (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01221; Fri, 14 Jun 91 14:31:45 BST To: cbs%relay::ics.uci.edu::mh-users@hermes Reply-To: gareth@hermes.mod.uk Subject: Addresses containing :: I am trying to install mh-6.7 patchlevel 0 on a network of suns (running SunOS 4.1) but have run into trouble due to the fact that all our mail goes through a DECnet gateway. Because of this, address are of a strange format cbs%relay::<address>::<user>@hermes for example cbs%relay::ics.uci.edu::mh-users@hermes and post objects to this. I thought it was ap but replacing this with a version that allowed any address to go through cured nothing. For example What now? send post: bad address ':ics.uci.edu::mh-users@hermes' - illegal address construct (:), continuing... post: no addressees send: message not delivered to anyone What now? The configuration file is # @(#)$Id: MH,v 1.7 90/04/06 09:44:31 sources Exp $ # a 4.2BSD VAX system running SendMail bin /usr/local/bin debug off etc /usr/local/lib/mh mail /var/spool/mail mailgroup off mandir /usr/share/man manuals local chown /etc/chown editor vi remove mv -f mts sendmail/smtp bboards off bbdelivery off mf off pop off options ATHENA options BIND options BSD42 options BSD43 options DBM options DUMB options FOLDPROT='"0700"' options ISI options MHE options MHRC options MSGPROT='"0600"' options NTOHLSWAP options SUN40 options TYPESIG='void' options UK options WHATNOW options ZONEINFO cc cc ccoptions -O curses -lcurses -ltermlib ldoptlibs -ldbm lex lex -t sharedlib off slibdir /usr/local/lib oldload off ranlib on tma off Thanks in advance Gareth Richards (gareth@hermes.mod.uk)