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- Subject: Mail-11 => SMTP gatewaying per RFC-1405
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.110451.4275@arizona.edu>
- From: leonard@telcom.arizona.edu (Aaron Leonard)
- Date: 21 Jan 93 11:04:49 MST
- Reply-To: Leonard@Arizona.EDU
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- Organization: University of Arizona Telecommunications
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- We operate an e-mail gateway that relays mail between
- Mail-11 (DECnet) and SMTP (among others.) (Our gateway
- runs PMDF on a VMS platorm.)
-
- Let's say that our gateway has a DECnet nodename of
- GATE and an Internet domain name of Gate.Arizona.EDU.
- When a mail message is sent via Mail-11 thru our gateway
- to an SMTP destination, we rewrite its From: address
- as USER%Host.DECnet@Gate.Arizona.EDU. For example, if Mail-11
- user BUGS::LEONARD uses our gateway to send mail to
- SMTP user <jones@frobbitz.com>, he'll address his message
- to
- GATE::IN%"jones@frobbitz.com"
- The SMTP user will receive this message with a From: address of
- LEONARD%BUGS.DECnet@Gate.Arizona.EDU
-
- This approach works well.
-
- Today RFC-1405, "Mapping between X.400(1984/1988) and Mail-11
- (DECnet mail)" was published. In section A3.2, "Mail-11 mapped in
- RFC822", this RFC recommends that Mail-11 => SMTP gatewayed
- addresses be rewritten as
- "Mail-11-address"@gateway-address
-
- So that, in my example above, jones@frobbitz.com would have received
- the message from
- "BUGS::LEONARD"@Gate.Arizona.EDU
-
- Would anyone care to comment on the desireability, or lack thereof,
- of changing our rewrite rule to comply with this aspect of RFC-1405?
-
- Aaron
-
- Aaron Leonard (AL104), <Leonard@Arizona.EDU>
- University of Arizona Network Operations, Tucson AZ 85721
-