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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 01:10:46 GMT
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- From: "Daniel C. Newman" <DAN@INNOSOFT.COM>
- Subject: RE: mail.delivery question
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- > We are setting up a 'special distribution list' (only 8 users, so far) on
- > our Vax; a special account (eg: DISTRIBUTOR) has got a mail.delivery file
- > as the following:
- >
- > !from to subj | when action param. ! note
- > !=======================================================
- > * * * A J "FAST" ! submit this proc. on queue FAST
- > * * * A V ! deliver a copy of the message
- > * * * A L ! save the batch log
- > * * *undeliver* T Q ! don't forward to the list if this
- > ! message is a warning of problems
- > ! occurred during delivery
- > * * * A F ""in%""""userA@vax.domain.it""""" ! send to userA
- > * * * A F ""in%""""userB@vm.domain.de""""" ! send to userB
- > etc.
- >
- > Each user, from different sites in Europe, send message to the DISTRIBUTOR
- > and then the message is forwarded to the rest of the list; any suggestion
- > to admit only the registered users having access to this service ? (We
- > would like to filter 'occasionaly' message received by DISTRIBUTOR, e.g.
- > advertisement, greetings ecc.)
-
- Your best bet would be to not use DELIVER and instead set up a mailing list in
- accord with Section 3.3.2.2 of the V4.1 PMDF System Manager's Guide and then
- use the special "named parameters" to control access to that list. These
- parameters are described in Section 3.3.2.2.1 of the online documentation.
- (They were not documented in time to make it into the printed manuals.) If you
- cannot use Bookreader, then you can look at the documentation sources: search
- for the string "named parameters" in the file
- PMDF_ROOT:[DOC]GUIDE_COMPONENTS.SDML.
-
- If you set up a mailing list this way, then you might also consider using the
- mail/list server supplied with PMDF V4.1 to manage the list. In a separate
- messge I will send you information on how to use all of its access control
- mechanisms to manage the list.
-
- If you wish to stick with DELIVER, then you need to set up a command procedure
- to be run by DELIVER with an E action. This command procedure would then check
- the From: address of a potential submission against the list of registered
- users and then only submit the posting if a match is found. To submit the
- posting use the command
-
- $ PMDF SEND/HEADER/BLANK 'MESSAGE_HEADER','MESSAGE_FILE' "userA@vax.domain.it"
-
- Dan
-