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- From: DMPM@DUKEMC.BITNET (James Dryfoos- Postmaster)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pmdf-l
- Subject: Use of reverse database and affect on requesting Bitnet files.
- Message-ID: <01GT2VPFRSXU90OFAI@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 19:18:45 GMT
- Sender: PMDF Distribution List <PMDF-L@IRLEARN.BITNET>
- Organization: Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC, USA
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- Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
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- X-VMS-To: IN%"ipmdf@ymir"
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- Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
-
- We have been reverse mapping all mail through our PMDF node for sometime now.
- One side affect I noticed was that mail going out our Bitnet link to listservs
- would result in the listserv sending a file (sometimes mail) back to the
- sending ID (as we are directly on the Bitnet). When the file arrives, JNET
- sees that this user does not exist on the local system and sends the file to
- Postmaster (as defined in the JNET startup). I have written a simple DCL
- program that grabs all files in the postmaster area, looks to whom each was
- really sent, and forwards them on as an e-mail message.
-
- Is anyone else doing anything like this?
- Are there any plans for PMDF to support this?
- I have not played with JNET's API stuff, but am sure something that is less of
- a hack can be done. Anyone do this?
-
- I have not even contemplating supporting anything but text files (have not
- needed to so far). This might be an interesting thing for PMDF to do. It
- coulld take the incoming files and put them into Mime parts?
-
- As an example, user X on system Y would normally have a return address
- of x%y@dukemc, but we rewrite it do standard_id@dukemc and send it out.
- A listserv sends back directly to standard_id@dukemc. For mail this works out
- fine as a corresponding alias of standard_id@dukemc gets rewritten to x%y.
- However, incoming Bitnet files never get touched by PMDF. As there is no VMS
- account standard_id on our system. the file is delivered to postmaster.
-
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
- --Jim
-
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