[HECnet] HECnet mail gateway...

[Johnny Billquist]

Hi.

On 2017-04-15 08:07, Mark Abene wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 4:27 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se
> <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:
>
>     On 2017-04-14 08:37, Mark Abene wrote:
>
>         It does indeed work to my VAX/VMS system, sending to
>         "enkidu::phiber"@mim.update.uu.se <http://mim.update.uu.se>
>         <http://mim.update.uu.se> from gmail.
>
>
>     Good.
>
>         Something odd with my TOPS-20 mail setup on GLGMSH, it assumes
>         ALL mail
>         is Internet mail, and doesn't seem to know what to do with a DECnet
>         style mail address. That's a separate issue, not related to your
>         mail
>         gateway.
>
>
>     Yeah. So you could not even send to just MIM::BQT from GLGMSH?
>
>
> Nope. The mailer strips DECnet addresses to "HOST:" and fails trying to
> deliver this over the Internet.
> E.g: if I try to send mail to MIM::BQT, it tries to deliver to "MIM:"
> and immediately fails. Haven't yet had time to track down what's going on.

Ok. So it's not DECnet aware. There should be some DECnet aware mail 
software for TOPS-20 I would think.

>         By the way, if I try to run MAIL on MIM at the moment, it gives
>         me an error:
>         $ mail
>         Sorry, no mail reader yet.
>
>         It used to work just fine...
>
>
>     Yeah. It defaulted to send, since there is no mail reader. Which I
>     decided was wrong. Try the command "SEND" instead, which does just
>     the mail sending.
>
>
> How about reading mail sent to MIM? I'm pretty sure I've read test
> e-mails that I've sent to MIM, using MAIL on MIM.

Currently I just put them all in a text file in DU:[1,7], so look for a 
file named as your UIC in that directory. You can read it with MORE or 
TYPE, or whatever.

	Johnny

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