[comp.soft-sys.andrew] .MS.DirectPost

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