[HECnet] Multinet Mail
Johnny Billquist
bqt at softjar.se
Thu Jun 6 12:15:11 PDT 2019
Hum. You get it working with gmail??? That is surprising. I noticed
several years ago that gmail do not accept mails with a from address in
the form "foo::bar"@mim.update.uu.se, even though it actually should
accept it.
How does multinet rewrite the from address then?
Johnny
On 2019-06-06 21:04, Kurt Hamm wrote:
> I got it working. I setup Multinet to route all outbound external mail
> to one of my external mail domains. Then I setup mail routing for any
> email to that domain to be forwarded to the Vax for delivery.
>
> It works great. I can email from the VAX to a GMAIL account and then
> reply back.
>
> Kurt
>
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 2:53 PM Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se
> <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:
>
> On 2019-06-06 15:04, Kurt Hamm wrote:
> > I wasn't sure where to post this question, so I thought I would
> start here.
> >
> > I have two simh vax3900 machines. Larry and Moe. Larry is the
> HECNet
> > router for Moe.
> >
> > When I send email from Larry (via SMTP), the _return _email
> address is
> > correct (SYSTEM at LARRY.MYDOMAIN.COM
> <mailto:SYSTEM at LARRY.MYDOMAIN.COM> <mailto:SYSTEM at LARRY.MYDOMAIN.COM
> <mailto:SYSTEM at LARRY.MYDOMAIN.COM>>.
> >
> > When I send email from Moe (to LARRY::SMTP%"user at domain.com
> <mailto:user at domain.com>
> > <mailto:user at domain.com <mailto:user at domain.com>>"), the return
> email address is:
> > SYSTEM at SCSSYSTEMID.MYDOMAIN.COM
> <mailto:SYSTEM at SCSSYSTEMID.MYDOMAIN.COM>
> <mailto:SYSTEM at SCSSYSTEMID.MYDOMAIN.COM
> <mailto:SYSTEM at SCSSYSTEMID.MYDOMAIN.COM>>.
> >
> > Why is Moe using the SCSSYSTEMID instead of the system name?
> >
> > *I am missing something.*
>
> I'm not sure how you should do a setup of mail relaying in VMS.
>
> However, you can always send from Moe to MIM::user at domain.com
> <mailto:MIM%3A%3Auser at domain.com>. Those
> mails should then get correct addresses.
>
> Johnny
>
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