[HECnet] VMS/RSX Guest accounts

[Thomas DeBellis]

Yes, but the MIM guest account is shared; I'm going to need to store a 
few files (captures, control files, Etc.)

Wow, you've kept a real VAX running from 1993?  Good for you! I'll 
contact you off-list.

On 4/22/20 11:07 PM, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
>
> 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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