[HECnet] SMTP gateways to HECnet?

[Steve Davidson]

Bob,

Good info!   I will take a look at this over the weekend.

I wish I had extra parts for the AXP 2000 series.   One of mine has bad memory and it has been a real pain to deal with.   The working ones have 256MB and for those machine that's a lot.   They need those panels for not only dust but because the fans expect them in place for proper cooling.   I'm still looking for AHA-1742 rev G2 controllers so I can expand the disk space.   Max drive size is 8.0GB due to a limit in the controller firmware.   These were the first Alpha's produced so they are probably the slowest.

-Steve

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From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE on behalf of Bob Armstrong
Sent: Tue 10/20/2009 11:49
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: RE: [HECnet] SMTP gateways to HECnet?



I could probably do this with NetBSD as a front end to deal with spam and
then Multinet as the actual gateway.

  I use PMAS for SPAM filtering my mail, but when I was doing it before I
explicitly opted out all the DECnet mail from PMAS processing.   The thing
is, if you're going to start SPAM filtering for people's DECnet mail, then
they need a way to get to their quarantined messages, configure their
white/black lists, etc.   That's not really a problem (PMAS has a web
interface for just this purpose and I'm sure all the other SPAM filters do
too) but then people need a browser and a TCP/IP interface to receive their
DECnet mail.   At some point it all becomes kind of silly.

  That's why I opted out the DECnet mail from SPAM filtering.   Hopefully
people don't publish their DECnet addresses on web pages or mailing lists.
Like I said, the gateway was hardly ever used so SPAM never became a
problem.

How much of a load is Multinet on an Alpha (Jensen)?

  Not much, I would imagine.   A Jensen is the slowest Alpha (or does that
honor go to the Multia?   Can't remember...) but still, Multinet runs just
fine on a VAX - even the slowest Alpha ought to be blazingly fast in
comparison :-)

  BTW, do you have any extra Jensen sheet metal parts?   I've got a beautiful
AXP2000 in the garage, but it's missing its side panel.   Gets pretty dusty
inside.

Bob