KW20SWK0@TWNITRI1.BITNET (11/09/90)
I am trying to build a private bboard and following the instructions in the document privbb.help. I created a file .MS.DirectPost in the directory ~/.MESSAGES_PUBLIC liked that 0 sung+andrew@w2sun2 According to the document, now others can send messages to "sung+andrew@w2sun2", but when I tried it; cui can't reconize this address. We are using BSD mail instead of AMDS here. Does .MS.DirectPost only work in AMDS? Wai-kong, Sung CCL/ITRI
nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) (11/09/90)
The problem isn't .MS.DirectPost, it's what you put in it. What goes there has to be a valid address. sung+andrew is simply not a valid address in a normal BSD delivery environment. (With AMDS, a valid userid can be followed by a plus sign and ANY string, but this is not true with BSD mail delivery.) To obtain the same kind of functionality with BSD/sendmail delivery, you can hide the informaton in the RFC822 route phrase, using an address of the following form: sung+andrew <sung> or, if you prefer sung+andrew <sung@w2sun2> Either of these should work fine, at least if you've upgraded to Andrew patch level 6 or higher. Let me know if that isn't clear. -- Nathaniel