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From: D.Nash@UTEXAS.EDU (Donald L. Nash)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pmdf-l
Subject: Two unrelated questions
Date: 5 Nov 92 22:40:18 GMT
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I'm having an odd problem with MAILSERV under V4.1-10.  Everything seems to
work OK except for the DIRECTORY command.  I've defined
PMDF_MAILSERV_FILES_DIR to be "DUB0:[ANONYMOUS.ROOT.]", but the DIR command
fails with this error:

        No files found in command: dir *.*;*
        Use the HELP command to get a list of legal MAILSERV commands.

The screwy thing is that the SEND command *does* work.  I can use MAILSERV to
retrieve stuff from that directory, I just can't list anything.  I enabled
master_debug on the mailserv channel and got this:

Debugging enabled.
  Command limit set to 2147483647
  Maximum blocks per message set to 2147483647
  Maximum lines per message set to 2147483647
  MAILSERV reply address is: mailserv-reply@nic.the.net

Starting processing of PMDF_ROOT:[QUEUE.mailserv]ZZ01GQSOK7FHES00005M.00
  Message is from: D.Nash@utexas.edu
  Command: dir *.*;*
  CLI$DCL_PARSE returned status of 196609
Processing DIRECTORY command.
  Directory specification: *.*;*
  CLI$DISPATCH returned status of 0
  Making response header.
  Closing the output message.
  Finished with this message.

Not very informative, huh?  This one's got me stumped, so I'd appreciate some
enlightenment.

On a totally different subject, we have a mail host here which serves the
utexas.edu domain.  People who are registered with this mail host have mail
addresses of the form "F.Last@utexas.edu", and mail to this address will be
forwarded to their "real" mailbox (for example, D.Nash@utexas.edu gets
forwarded to don@nic.the.net, which is where I receive all my mail).  I have
a few users on my VAX (myself included), who have been registered with the
mail host.  I'd like to be able to recognize these addresses in PMDF and
deliver them locally rather than forwarding them to the mail host and getting
them right back again.  The problem is, I don't know how to do this.  I know
that I can set up a directory channel domain for utexas.edu, but that will
capture all utexas.edu addresses and I only want to capture three of them.
Is this possible?  If so, how is it done?

                                Thanks,

                                ++Don Nash

Internet:  D.Nash@utexas.edu    The University of Texas System
BITNET:    DON@THENIC           Office of Telecommunication Services
From: JOHNSON@NORTHEASTERN.EDU (I am only an egg.)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pmdf-l
Subject: New Mail Interface
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:09:52 GMT
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     Hi.

     At an INTEROP last year Dan told me that INNOSOFT was working on a
replacement mailer for VMS that (as I recall)

     o  used the existing VMS mail files and structure

     o  had all the fuctionallity of the existinf VMS mail interface

     o  would accept addresses DECNET or Internet form, with or
        without IN% and do the right thing with them

     I offered to BETA same and am still MORE than willing.  My users
don't like IN%.

     Is it close to BETA yet?  Please, please, please.

Chris Johnson
Northeastern University.
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              CHRIS@UCSVC.UCS.UNIMELB.EDU.AU
From:         C.Chaundy@ITS.UNIMELB.EDU.AU
Subject:      RE: Additional mailing list security
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pmdf-l

>Date: 11 Nov 1992 23:37:47 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Ned Freed <NED@INNOSOFT.COM>
>Subject: RE: Additional mailing list security
>
>The functionality to restrict the people who can mail to a given list was
>added in V4.1. You can restrict the ability to post to a list of addresses
>or a mapping or both. See the material on positional parameters for mailing
>list (section 3.3.2 or thereabouts).

There is a bit more in the current patch level Bookreader manuals than in
the original hard copies, including the section on 'named parameters' which
is exactly what I was after (3.3.2.2.1).

Thanks for the direction, Chris Chaundy
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Date:         Thu, 12 Nov 92 21:56:56 GMT
From:         "James Dryfoos- Postmaster" <DMPM@DUKEMC.BITNET>
Subject:      Undocumented entry in mail.log?
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pmdf-l

I fond the following in mail.log and was wondering how to interpret?

11-NOV-1992 12:06:49 mailserv     120646120649 S 0 DMPM@mc.duke.edu sub chgadm-l
    chgadm@mc.duke.edu 3.48

I do not find anything about an S entry in the docs.

--Jim

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      Duke University Medical Center    |  dmpm@dukemc.bitnet
      Box 2914 DUMC                     |  (919) 684-6421 - office
      Durham, NC 27710 Earth            |  (919) 684-8675 - fax
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Date:         Fri, 6 Nov 92 15:27:06 GMT
From:         Eliza Lau <LAUE@VTCC1.BITNET>
Subject:      How to reroute bitnet mail to a unix machine
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pmdf-l

We just installed PMDF 4.1 on VTCC1, our campus's hub for VMS bitnet mail.
One of the VMS nodes on campus, VTMATH, will be replaced by a Unix machine.
I want to define VTMATH as an alias for VTCC1 in JNET and reconfigure PMDF to
route all the bitnet mail going to VTMATH to their new location math.vt.edu.

Please tell me which of the following rewrite rules should I put in PMDF.CNF:

VTMATH                                  $U@math.vt.edu
VTMATH.BITNET                           $U@math.vt.edu

*OR*

VTMATH                                  $U%math.vt.edu@mtcp-daemon
VTMATH.BITNET                           $U%math.vt.edu@mtcp-daemon

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 1700 Pratt Drive                               Bitnet  : LAUE@VTCC1
 Blacksburg VA 24060                            Voice   : (703) 231-9399
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From: dank@BLACKS.JPL.NASA.GOV
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pmdf-l
Subject: RE: Does PMDF support SMTP source routing?
Date: 6 Nov 92 21:44:37 GMT
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              06 Nov 92 15:25:00 EST."
              <CC8FCD7E7F5F003A9B@phem1.acs.ohio-state.edu>

Greg writes:
>I am responding to your posting to file a STRONG OBJECTION to what you are
>doing! There is already enough junk traffic on the Internet without more
>people designing automatons to troll for information that isn't desired
>by anyone. There are probably 1,000 systems on this campus alone running
>mailers, and I don't particularly want you probing them all to find out
>how they're configured. Please reconsider what you're doing!
>Gregory (Greg) E. Steele              Postmaster@osu.edu
>Network Engineer                      (Internet):ges+@osu.edu
>The Ohio State University             (BITNET): GES+@OHSTMAIL
>Academic Computing Services
>1971 Neil Avenue - Rm 406             Voice: 614-292-4843
>Columbus, OHio  43210-1210            FAX:   614-292-7081

Hmm.  Let me try to allay your fears.
I share your concern about junk traffic on the Internet, but Horton
does not go offsite, so it does not put any traffic on the backbone at all.
Horton does indeed troll for information- but in a very controlled way.
It is only intended for use by network administrators to create an e-mail
database for their *own* network.
It is not intended to look outside the subdomain.
I believe it is less invasive than Netfind, an e-mail lookup tool
which is run directly by users instead of by a single administrator.

Who would want to run Horton?  Any network administrator wanting to set up a
whois server but not wanting to collect and maintain the database by hand.
It is already in use by ten or twenty sites around the world, including
horton.caltech.edu; try whois /host=horton.caltech.edu searchkey
to see what its database looks like.
- Dan Kegel
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Date:         Mon, 9 Nov 92 23:16:07 GMT
From:         Mike Knezevich <KNEZEVICH@NOAAPMEL.GOV>
Subject:      2 questions
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pmdf-l

1) This may be a FAQ, but an exuser must be subscribed to a dozen mailing
lists, and now that he is gone, his mail is bouncing. As postmaster, I receive
these, too.  What is the best way to deep-six mail addressed to this guy?

2) Any suggestions for meaningful interval values for a) return.com, which
runs every midnight, and b) the messages that are sent at 3,6,9, and 12
days.  A user complained because he didn't get notified for 3 days that
his mail was not delivered.  Somebody suggested running return.com every
4 hours or so, and having the first message sent at one day. Any
comments on that suggestion or  on notification of nondelivery in general?

thanks,

Mike
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Date:         Wed, 4 Nov 92 18:46:52 GMT
From:         "Daniel C. Newman" <DAN@INNOSOFT.COM>
Subject:      RE: Problem where my compiled pmdf.cnf file does not take affect.
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pmdf-l

> I have two systems running PMDF (one prod and one test). On my test system I
> can make a change to pmdf.cnf and run this com file to compile it and install
> it:
>
> ...
>
> So why do my changes to pmdf.cnf not show up on one system?

You have not supplied enough information.

(0) What is your basis for knowing that changes are working on one system and
    not the other?

(1) Are both systems using the same PMDF directory tree?  If not, then make
    sure that you have made the PMDF.CNF changes to both PMDF's and compiled
    and reinstalled the correct files.

(2) On your production system, did you get out of VMS MAIL (or whatever) and
    back in again after running INSTALL?

(3) Have you tried using PMDF TEST/REWRITE with and without the /NOIMAGE
    qualifier to see if you can detect a difference between the PMDF.CNF
    file and the compiled/installed version of it?

Dan
From: roseberry@TANEY.USCGHQ.USCG.MIL
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pmdf-l
Subject: SMTP and Long Lines Supported ?
Date: 5 Nov 92 04:40:31 GMT
Organization: United States Coast Guard
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        We have an odd UNISYS system that has SMTP and sends some
        very long lines of text in the mail message.  My understanding
        is that any SMTP package should be able to handle lines as
        long as 1000 characters.

        MX won't support over about 250 characters per line.

        Will PMDF support up to 1000 characters ?

        Thanks !

        - Bert Roseberry
          US Coast Guard
          roseberry@taney.uscghq.uscg.mil
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              CHRIS@UCSVC.UCS.UNIMELB.EDU.AU
From:         C.Chaundy@ITS.UNIMELB.EDU.AU
Subject:      Additional mailing list security
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pmdf-l

With the MAPPINGS file now in PMDF, it is possible to control who add
subscribe and unsubscribe users from MAILSERV mailing lists, get copies
of the list, etc., but has anyone implemented a system where only a
restricted group of users may actually mail to particular lists?

Also, is it possible to go futher and totally hide the address that
made the posting to the list?

Thanks in advance, Chris Chaundy (Technical Manager, Networks)

Information Technology Services, Thomas Cherry Building,
The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052 Australia
Phone:    +61 3 344 7045                Fax:   +61 3 347 4803
Internet: C.Chaundy@its.unimelb.EDU.AU  (X.121 505233430003)
From: dank@BLACKS.JPL.NASA.GOV (Daniel R. Kegel)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pmdf-l
Subject: Does PMDF support SMTP source routing?
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:51:47 GMT
Organization: Image Analysis Systems Group, JPL
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Hi,
I'm trying to do an automatic mail probe to see if mail systems are
well-configured.  The acid test is to see whether the system can route
mail thru itself back to me via source routing, i.e.
    mail @host2:myself@myhost

However, sometimes when I try this, I get errors like

From: PMDF Mail Server <postmaster@portia.caltech.edu>
Subject: Undeliverable mail: temporarily unable to deliver

Your message could not be delivered to:

    horton%punisher.caltech.edu@ORIENT

Your message has been enqueued and undeliverable for 6 days.
The mail system will continue to try to deliver your message
for an additional 6 days.

Is this because PMDF can't handle source routing?
- Dan K. (dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov)
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Date:         Wed, 11 Nov 92 20:56:33 GMT
From:         "Daniel C. Newman" <DAN@INNOSOFT.COM>
Subject:      RE: Help setting up mailing lists
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pmdf-l

> We have a news server with newsgroups such as email.msmail.appletalk.  I'd
> like to create MAILSERV mailing lists with the same name, as far as the user
> is concerned.
>
> If I create .DIS files by replacing periods with underscores, users also
> will have to replace periods with underscores when they SUBSCRIBE.
>
> Can the mapping file be used to change the command sent to MAILSERV?  For
> instance, map SUBSCRIBE EMAIL.MSMAIL.APPLETALK ... to SUBSCRIBE
> EMAIL-MSMAIL-APPLETALK ...?

For the time being, you're only option is to change the list names.  We'll look
into adding for 4.2 a mapping table to map list names to mailing list file
names.

Note that the source to MAILSERV ships with PMDF.  Some simple code additions
will allow periods in list names to be translated to hyphens.  In a separate
message I'll send you such a modified version of MAILSERV.  The translations
are hard-coded and do not use mapping tables.

Dan
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Date:         Wed, 4 Nov 92 14:22:00 EST
From:         "John M. Connors, University of Vermont,
              (802)656-2012" <JMC@UVMVAX.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: POPmail
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I have the POP3 server from IU running under VMS with Wollongong
TCP/IP.  It justs requires a tad of adjustment to get the linking
routine to work.  After you have done that, link, compile, Cha-Ching!
You have a POP3 server for your VMS system.  Unfortunately, I think
POP3 is the biggest headache you can give yourself.  I have exteme
reservations about the lack of control and security it provides.

Users wanted it.  I am just systems geek... Link it, compile it, run
it, go back to your basement office, keep quiet.

If POP* and IMAP is to be incorporated into PMDF, Great.  The
in% handle can cause some problems with POP clients.  IUPOP3
distribution has a fix for this 'issue'.

Enjoy, the users will love it.

john m connors
university of vermont
technical support group
jmc@uvmvax.uvm.edu
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Date:         Fri, 13 Nov 92 15:24:58 GMT
From:         Dave Goodwin <GOODWIN@SMCVAX.BITNET>
Subject:      PMDF & MultiNet
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pmdf-l

We are in the midst of getting ourselves connected to the Internet, and
have just installed TGV's MultiNet 3.1.  I have PMDF 4.1 ready to install,
but I'd like some advice and feedback from the net first.  Here's the
situation I need to handle:

Our site will remain on Bitnet for a while, with a separate 9.6k line to
each of two other nodes.  We will have a 56k line to our Internet neighbor
with nobody else downstream from us.  We currently use PMDF 3.1(?) on our
Bitnet system, along with Jnet.  This runs on a VAX 3400 with VMS 5.4-2.
Currently all users read their mail on a single node, although I will
be changing this later to use Decnet channels to direct mail to other
nodes internally.  We also have a couple of UNIX workstations which will
eventually get their mail sent directly to them.

Now the questions:

1.  Does anyone have opinions on the advisability of using MultiNet MM
    instead of VMS Mail?  It seems more capable on the surface, but there
    will be the training issue.  Also, I know we can let PMDF deliver to
    both mail agents depending on the existence of the Multinet mail files.
    I'm interested in the experiences of other MultiNet sites.

2.  During PMDF configuration, will the auto-config program be able to
    setup the configuration I need, or will I need to do it manually?
    I'm a bit uncertain about the choices to make concerning what
    systems are gateways, and to/from whom.  Any hints or trouble spots
    to watch would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance....
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Date:         Fri, 13 Nov 92 08:21:54 GMT
From:         Ned Freed <NED@SIGURD.INNOSOFT.COM>
Subject:      RE: Additional mailing list security
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pmdf-l

Yup, some of that was added after the manuals went to press. It depends on
the generation of manuals you have. The Bookreader materials are, as always,
the most current. (Just like DEC manuals, come to think of it.)

                                Ned
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Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 92 12:19:52 GMT
From:         MARTIN@EKU.BITNET
Subject:      Re: 2 questions
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pmdf-l

Hi!

You can also get your info-rep to UNSUB the person from ALL the lists by
sending something like the below to the closest LISTSERV.

//unsub job pw=(whatever - not always needed)
delete * dd=names (netwide
//names dd *
sturedbk@eku
/*

A simple send/file with take care of it. Of course for personal message
-- I would do what Ned said. :)

Hope this helps,

Bob Martin -- martin@eku.bitnet
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Date:         Thu, 12 Nov 92 05:00:11 GMT
From:         "Jim Lovsey, MEC, (614)221-8005" <LOVSEY@MEC.OHIO.GOV>
Subject:      Forcing lowercase usernames
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pmdf-l


I recently setup a uucp connection to a Unix host that is really picky
about case.  I added a lowercase rewrite rule for them, something like:

unixhost  $u@unixhost

I swapped a few test messages with them and all was well.  Since the
people that really wanted to exchange mail with the new Unix host are my
A1 neighbors, I logged into their machine and sent a test message from
All-in-One.  PMDF-MR did it's magic and things looked fine.  A few minutes
later, bounced message.  I looked at the headers and low-and-behold, it
read   USER@unixhost.  Message Router evidently feels it has a civic duty
to uppercase everything.  Since I had foolishly already told the A1 people
that this was working, I needed to fix this up in a hurry, so I added the
unixhost uppercase usernames to the general database and substituted the
lowercase name.  They only have five or six users so this was easy to do.
I had entries like:

FRED    fred
BOB     bob

I then changed the rewrite rule to:

unixhost  $($u)@unixhost

This worked like a charm but there must be a better way to handle this.
Suggestions?

Thanks,

--- Jim

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