mst@mx.csun.edu (Mike Temkin) (12/29/90)
We have a problem here at CSUN. We have machines that run both UNIX and VMS and mail travels between them. The problem is in responding to a message from VMS using MH, MH doesn't seem to like the "host::user" format. Since mail front ends should not touch the addresses (let alone parse them) how can I get MH to stop parsing them (or *eesh* atleast have them parse the ::)? (Please don't ask me to have the :: rewritten as @, the problem is the VMS system is .csun.edu and our UNIX host is .secs.csun.edu. The rewritten address comes out as vax.secs.csun.edu, not vax.csun.edu.) T.I.A. Mike. -- Mike Temkin mst@csun.edu Cal. State U. Northridge, School of Engineering and Computer Science Voice phone: (818) 885-3919
jromine@buckaroo.ics.uci.edu (John Romine) (12/29/90)
mst@secs.csun.edu (Mike Temkin) writes: >We have a problem here at CSUN. We have machines that run both UNIX and VMS >and mail travels between them. The problem is in responding to a message >from VMS using MH, MH doesn't seem to like the "host::user" format. > >(Please don't ask me to have the :: rewritten as @, the problem is the VMS Well, that's what should happen to fix the problem. How did the mail get to your system? Did it travel over SMTP? If so, the sending MTS should be rewriting non-RFC822 headers into the Internet format. MH is an RFC822 user agent. It doesn't support message formats which don't follow that standard. If your system accepted the mail through DECnet, then it should be rewriting the headers before it delivers the mail to you, if you want to use an RFC822 message format. In any case, whoever moves the mail from one addressing domain to another must rewrite the headers. You might try compiling MH with BERK and DUMB defined, but I can't guarantee that even using both of those will defeat enough of the address parser to make it work for you. -- John Romine
mst@mx.csun.edu (Mike Temkin) (12/29/90)
In article <277B92EF.4416@ics.uci.edu> jromine@ics.uci.edu (John Romine) writes: >mst@secs.csun.edu (Mike Temkin) writes: >>We have a problem here at CSUN. We have machines that run both UNIX and VMS > >If your system accepted the mail through DECnet, then it should be >rewriting the headers before it delivers the mail to you, if you want >to use an RFC822 message format. In any case, whoever moves the mail >from one addressing domain to another must rewrite the headers. > >You might try compiling MH with BERK and DUMB defined, but I can't >guarantee that even using both of those will defeat enough of the >address parser to make it work for you. >-- >John Romine Yes, the mail is sent and received via DECnet and the headers cannot be rewritten by the sender (and as I said, if the receiver rewrites the headers and puts the sender in the wrong domain). I guess I will have to hack the parser routines and get it to recognize "::" as well as ":" (if possible). Thanks, Mike. -- Mike Temkin mst@csun.edu Cal. State U. Northridge, School of Engineering and Computer Science Voice phone: (818) 885-3919