[HECnet] decnet.org

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-07-11 15:35, Bob Armstrong wrote:
Maybe Bob (or who it was?) can make a short comment on how they configured
things ...

    Like I remember :-)

    All I can say is that the SMTP to MAIL-11 gateway is built into Multinet
and you have to be running the Multinet SMTP server as a prerequisite.   ISTR
that I used the decnet.org domain for this, so inbound addresses were of the
form "user at node.decnet.org" where "node" was the HECnet node name.   Outbound
MAIL-11 addresses look like LEGATO::SMTP%"user at somewhere.com".

    It wasn't that hard to get it working - the biggest problem I remember was
getting the address rewriting rules correct so that mail was symmetrical
(i.e. somebody on the Internet could reply to a message that originated on
HECnet without needing to fix the reply-to address).

    I'd set it up again if there was an application for it, but it was never
really used before.   I let it run a year or two and then quit maintaining it
when I upgraded Multinet.

I used it a few times and enjoyed it. I know a couple of people who used it a bit more...
If it was a rather small effort to get up and keep up, I would be happy to see it return. But I don't expect anyone to put lots of work or money into it.

	Johnny