csfst1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Charles S. Fuller) (01/13/91)
Can someone help with a rewriting rule to do the following? The situation is: an Apollo node running the sendmail (5.52?) distributed with SR10.3. This Apollo is on the same Ethernet as a VMS VAX with SMTP. The VAX has DECnet capability to another VAX, which, in turn, connects to another Ethernet and other IP hosts. From VAX-1, I can send mail to a host on VAX-2's Ethernet by specifying the address in the form vax-2::"user@host.subnet.domain" What I would like to be able to do is to send mail from my Apollo directly to a host on VAX-2's Ethernet. The .cf file distributed by Apollo doesn't like '::' constructs, and any attempts at "encapsulating" the above form are undone by the rewriting that takes place on the Apollo, resulting in "invalid local part". Is it proper to create a rule which would, upon seeing "vax-2::", send this entire string -- verbatim -- to VAX-1 ? Or should VAX-1 be somehow designated as our DECnet mail relay ? Thanks in advance. Chuck