[HECnet] Zaphod down for a few days

[Paul Koning]

Yes, that's what I was thinking.   I don't know how to do it, never
having been that deep into Sendmail.   I assume something like this was
used in the early days of worldwide email, when DEC had a gateway
(gatekeeper.dec.com) which mapped the internal Mail-11 system onto
Usenet and other external email machinery.

	paul

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On
Behalf Of Sampsa Laine
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 1:15 PM
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Zaphod down for a few days

Actually, what would be the proposed configuration using Sendmail, am
I right in thinking something along the lines of:

	- Ultrix running on a SIMH VAX (or even a real one if I ever get
one)
	- DECNET stack on Ultrix
	- Sendmail configured to accept Mail-11 (I saw there were some
pre-
made scripts for this)
	- Sendmail also configured to accept Fido stuff (also available)

Hmmm. This could work. Could be amusing to set up as well.

Samosa

On 1 Jul 2009, at 17:56, Paul Koning wrote:

Coulnd't you use Sendmail to do this?   It seems to have all the
necessary gateway machinery.   It probably doesn't run on VMS but it
would on Ultrix, so that could be the gateway to the Mail11
protocol.

	paul

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE]
On
Behalf Of Sampsa Laine
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 12:53 PM
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Zaphod down for a few days

Got any documentation for this API?

Ideally I'd want to somehow "hook" into the MAIL application in the
same way as TCP/IP does, i.e. to send an smtp message you prepend
SMTP
% to the recipient, I would love to be able to use an address like:

	FIDO%"John Q Public at 1:123/4.5"

How painful would this be to do (the hooking into the MAIL part and
parsing, I'll worry about the Fidonet encodings etc myself)?

Sampsa

On 1 Jul 2009, at 16:35, Bob Armstrong wrote:

How easy is it to get mail in and out of VMS mail using say DCL?

Sending is pretty easy, but reading it would require you to do
some
parsing (which, of course, can be done).

But there is an API for VMS mail and it'd be easier to write a
program to
do it instead (unless you really want to prove that you can do it
in
DCL)...

Bob