[comp.mail.sendmail] IDA/NIU Config. Question

mccrave@ssd.kodak.com (Donna L McCrave ) (02/27/91)

I have a question regarding the IDA/NIU Sendmail package version
1.4.2 with Vaxmail support.

We've trained our users to send mail to the vax world using a
domain type syntax like this:
	smith@vax1.dnet.kodak.com
and they abide by it pretty well.  I'm replacing the tired, worn
out mail hub using the IDA/NIU package.  I'd like to preserve that 
syntax, but cannot understand how to take advantage of the table
"DECNETXTABLE" which will flatten the domain type name to the
simple DECnet name.  The table is only consulted by the mailer
TCP-D, but I would like to use it with the Dmail mailer.

Without that table lookup, the To: line is not correct.  It is
delivered to the remote system with the To: line:
	OUR_HUB::"smith@vax1.dnet.kodak.com"
which fails on the remote system.  The From line is correct due
to the use of the "HIDDENNET" option.  We'd really like to To
line to be VAX1::SMITH.

Is there any way to convert the domain name to the simple DECnet
name under the standard IDA/NIU options and tables?  I really
don't want to alter the Sendmail.mc since Neil has requested that
we do not touch it.
-- 
Donna McCrave
Eastman Kodak Co. 
mccrave@SSD.Kodak.COM