From: jeremy@vsm.com.au (Jeremy Begg)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
Subject: Erroneous output from CONFIGURE.COM
Date: 4 Sep 92 03:59:56 GMT
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I recently installed PMDF V4.1-2 and used the CONFIGURE.COM procedure to
generate the initial configuration.  I have found two problems with it so
far, which other people might like to know about.

1) The local host information didn't work.  Here's part of CMDF.CNF:

!
! Rewrite rules for the local host/VAXcluster
!
SERF                            $U@r.s.g.a
SERF.r.s.g.a                    $U@r.s.g.a
WKVA                            $U@r.s.g.a
WKVA.r.s.g.a                    $U@r.s.g.a
WKVB                            $U@r.s.g.a
WKVB.r.s.g.a                    $U@r.s.g.a
WKVC                            $U@r.s.g.a
WKVC.r.s.g.a                    $U@r.s.g.a
r.s.g.a                         $U@r.s.g.a

l nox_env_to defragment charset7 us-ascii charset8 iso-8859-1
r.s.g.a

The "r.s.g.a" rule was not generated by CONFIGURE.COM: when I tried to
send a message to myself on SERF (the node I had just installed PMDF on) it
resulted in an infinite bounced message loop, which didn't go away until I
added the "r.s.g.a" rewrite rule.


2) I  included a few DECnet-mail hosts:

!
! Rewrite rules for the D (MAIL-11) channel
!
paper                                   $U@paper
pencil                                  $U@pencil
ruler                                   $U@ruler

d 733 nox_env_to defragment linelength 255 charset7 us-ascii charset8 iso-8859-1
DECNET-MAIL
paper                                   paper
pencil                                  pencil
ruler                                   ruler

But when I tried to send a message to a user on PAPER, the message was
encoded using BASE64 and was not readable:

>From:   SNAGWY::IN%"SYSPRGG@r.s.g.a"  "Jeremy Begg"
>To:     IN%"sysprgg@paper"
>CC:
>Subj:   This time the test is to paper
>
>Return-path: <SYSPRGG@r.s.g.a>
>Received: from r.s.g.a by r.s.g.a (PMDF #2395 ) id
> <01GODRIN20PYAXB0VS@r.s.g.a>; Fri, 4 Sep 1992 09:38:15 +0930
>Date: 04 Sep 1992 09:38:15 +0930
>From: Jeremy Begg <SYSPRGG@r.s.g.a>
>Subject: This time the test is to paper
>To: sysprgg@paper
>Message-id: <01GODRIN2K0OAXB0VS@r.s.g.a>
>X-VMS-To: IN%"sysprgg@paper"
>MIME-version: 1.0
>Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
>Content-transfer-encoding: BASE64
>
>QW5vdGhlciB0ZXN0LCB3aXRob3V0IGEgZG9tYWluIG5hbWUuDQoNCg==

The original message was just a line of text.

The first problem I could fix myself, but I don't know what to do about the
second.

Thanks,

        Jeremy Begg

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