[HECnet] decnet.org

[Bob Armstrong]

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.

Bob