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<p><font face="Arial">Thomas - MIM already has a guest account ... I
have had fun sending Johnny smtp emails to that account.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">I can give you an account on MARIAH (a real
VAX) if you wish, shoot me a note offline if you decide to
follow up ...</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">Regards</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">Supratim</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/22/20 10:49 PM, Thomas DeBellis
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:e05d6fad-7aa7-2f45-6a0a-c33b17f32e88@gmail.com">I've had
my fill of FAL and DAP for the moment and have turned to some
other things as sort of a 'break'. The Tops-10 NFT client breaks
on certain file names that the 20 sends it, so there is going to
be some debugging to track that down. Fortunately, a very patient
person gave me PPN on one of their 10's.
<br>
<br>
Right now, I'm working on bringing the Tops-20 mail system a bit
more up to date with respect to DECnet communications. These were
largely put aside when full Internet connectivity happened. Still,
the PANDA distribution has some bit rot because I know that
certain Columbia changes for DECnet (to support CCnet) are not
there. I can't imagine that we didn't send them to MRC; that
would have been unthinkable.
<br>
<br>
Fortunately, I was able to remember enough to put some of them
back so that I got SMTP over DECnet working well, again. It had
been suffering from about two minute timing delays and now it's
instantaneous between 20's, like I remember. Oddly enough, I
don't remember what else ran SMTP over DECnet; I'm certain that
RSX and VMS could have done it. I think some VMS site might have.
<br>
<br>
However, most non-SMTP DECnet hosts on CCnet were running Mail-11,
which the 20 also groks. In fact, it can convert Mail-11
addresses to SMTP and route over other transports such as PUP,
Chaos and TCP/IP as well as DECnet. We did a lot of mail routing
for CCnet to the Internet on CU20B, back in the day.
<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, there is some bit rot in some of the Tops-20
Mail-11 code, so I've got some tinkering to do. Does anyone have
a VMS or RSX system that they'd care to give me a guest account
on? It doesn't need any special capabilities; I'm just going to
be sending mail and looking a few raw headers over.
<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Supratim Sanyal, W1XMT
39.19151 N, 77.23432 W
QCOCAL::SANYAL via HECnet</pre>
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