[HECnet] VMS/RSX Guest accounts

[Supratim Sanyal]

Thomas - MIM already has a guest account ... I have had fun sending 
Johnny smtp emails to that account.

I can give you an account on MARIAH (a real VAX) if you wish, shoot me a 
note offline if you decide to follow up ...

Regards

Supratim

On 4/22/20 10:49 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
> I've had my fill of FAL and DAP for the moment and have turned to some 
> other things as sort of a 'break'.  The Tops-10 NFT client breaks on 
> certain file names that the 20 sends it, so there is going to be some 
> debugging to track that down.  Fortunately, a very patient person gave 
> me PPN on one of their 10's.
>
> Right now, I'm working on bringing the Tops-20 mail system a bit more 
> up to date with respect to DECnet communications.  These were largely 
> put aside when full Internet connectivity happened. Still, the PANDA 
> distribution has some bit rot because I know that certain Columbia 
> changes for DECnet (to support CCnet) are not there.  I can't imagine 
> that we didn't send them to MRC; that would have been unthinkable.
>
> Fortunately, I was able to remember enough to put some of them back so 
> that I got SMTP over DECnet working well, again.  It had been 
> suffering from about two minute timing delays and now it's 
> instantaneous between 20's, like I remember.   Oddly enough, I don't 
> remember what else ran SMTP over DECnet; I'm certain that RSX and VMS 
> could have done it.  I think some VMS site might have.
>
> However, most non-SMTP DECnet hosts on CCnet were running Mail-11, 
> which the 20 also groks.  In fact, it can convert Mail-11 addresses to 
> SMTP and route over other transports such as PUP, Chaos and TCP/IP as 
> well as DECnet.  We did a lot of mail routing for CCnet to the 
> Internet on CU20B, back in the day.
>
> Unfortunately, there is some bit rot in some of the Tops-20 Mail-11 
> code, so I've got some tinkering to do.  Does anyone have a VMS or RSX 
> system that they'd care to give me a guest account on?  It doesn't 
> need any special capabilities; I'm just going to be sending mail and 
> looking a few raw headers over.
>
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Supratim Sanyal, W1XMT
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