moore@betelgeuse.cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore) (09/16/90)
Archive-name: utk-mail11/15-Sep-90 Original-posting-by: moore@betelgeuse.cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore) Original-subject: Re: Sendmail 5.64 IDA 1.3.4 / DEC mail11v3 problem Archive-site: cs.utk.edu [128.169.201.1] Archive-directory: /readonly/mail11 Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) In article <1990Sep13.021422.22907@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Andy.Linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz writes: >I need to be able to use Sendmail 5.64 IDA to talk to DEC's mail11v3 >mailer on an Ultrix box which has DECnet-Ultrix installed. Sorry. You can't do it without modifying sendmail to speak DEC's undocumented extensions to SMTP. Mail-11 sends the message header before the recipient list, but SMTP does things in the opposite order. Furthermore, most remote mail-11 objects do not mail back error messages in the case of failed delivery; instead, the messages are delivered immediately and delivery status is reported back to the sender before the end of the conversation. Vanilla SMTP has no provision for this. I had to address the same problem when writing my mail-11 gateway, but I decided that modifying SMTP was a bad idea. For now, recipients are passed on the command line, and you get best results if you omit the 'm' flag (send to multiple recipients at once) in the mailer description. I have improvements for this problem in the works, so you can have the efficiency win of sending a message to multiple recipients in one transaction, but avoid the problems that occur if delivery for some of them fails. You can get the current version by anonymous ftp to cs.utk.edu (128.169.201.1), directory readonly/mail11, files mail11.tar and mail11d.tar. I'll mail out shar files on request for those that don't have ftp access. Keith Moore Internet: moore@cs.utk.edu University of Tenn. CS Dept. BITNET: moore@utkvx 107 Ayres Hall, UT Campus Telephone: +1 615 974 0822 Knoxville Tennessee 37996-1301 ``Friends don't let friends use YP (or NIS)'' Keith Moore Internet: moore@cs.utk.edu University of Tenn. CS Dept. BITNET: moore@utkvx 107 Ayres Hall, UT Campus Telephone: +1 615 974 0822 Knoxville Tennessee 37996-1301 ``Friends don't let friends use YP (or NIS)''