thomasm@ingres.com (Tom Markson) (03/19/91)
Can machine to machine mappings be done under mmdf in Open Desktop? For
instance, I receive mail from person@company.com. Now, if I try to
send mail to them, I get huge amounts of bounced messages. If I send
it to person@machine.company.com, it gets through. Now I know that their
mailer is screwed up, but I've got to fix it on my end.
Another case in which I have problems is this:
uucp
Machine A -> Machine B
\ <-------uucp
My Machine
I receive mail this way, but want to reply directly to machine A without
going through machine B. The From: Address I get is machineA!person@machineB.
I need to reduce this to machineA!person. I have a uucp line to machine A,
but cannot seem to get any of the alias files to cope with this.
Any help with this would be MUCH MUCH appreciated. Constantly rewriting
reply addresses is driving me completely mental...
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Tom Markson Unix Systems
email: thomasm@ingres.comdavid@sco.COM (David Fiander) (03/20/91)
In article <1991Mar19.034748.15021@ingres.Ingres.COM> thomasm@snoopy.Ingres.COM (Tom Markson) writes: >Can machine to machine mappings be done under mmdf in Open Desktop? For >instance, I receive mail from person@company.com. Now, if I try to >send mail to them, I get huge amounts of bounced messages. If I send >it to person@machine.company.com, it gets through. Now I know that their >mailer is screwed up, but I've got to fix it on my end. > It depends. If you just want to map from "company.com" to "machine.company.com" unconditionall (e.g. all mail to sco.com goes to sosco.sco.com), then it's simple. Add an entry to the appropriate domain table (ie "com", or "") of the form company: machine.company.com (in the "com" domain) or company.com: machine.company.com (in the "" domain) >Another case in which I have problems is this: > uucp >Machine A -> Machine B > \ <-------uucp > My Machine > >I receive mail this way, but want to reply directly to machine A without >going through machine B. The From: Address I get is machineA!person@machineB. >I need to reduce this to machineA!person. I have a uucp line to machine A, >but cannot seem to get any of the alias files to cope with this. Are you sure that it's not going directly to machineA if you just reply? If ap=822 is set on the UUCP channel, then machineA!person@machineB will probably be rewritten on the way out, and the channel tables for UUCP should contain a line specifying the direct connection to machineA, so mail destined for it shoudl go directly. NOTE: I am not as certain about this as I am about your first problem; getting a detailed answer would take a lot more information than I have right now. >Any help with this would be MUCH MUCH appreciated. Constantly rewriting >reply addresses is driving me completely mental... >-- >Tom Markson Unix Systems >email: thomasm@ingres.com David J Fiander SCO MMDF Development Team SCO Canada, Inc.