Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
Subject: RE: Problem with cc:Mail channel
From: Portia Shao <portia@innosoft.com>
Date: 13 Oct 1992 10:43:33 -0700 (PDT)
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>Hi all,
>	I was testing out the cc:Mail channel of PMDF with files, etc,
>and everything seemed to be fine until I rolled it into production. At
>this stage, mail from SMTP to cc:Mail that used to say it was from
>
>andrewr@itd.adelaide.edu.au at AARNet
>
>	in the cc:Mail export file, where AARNet is the name of the

You mean the Import file? the file which cc:Mail imports from PMDF.

>post office as defined in cc_local_option, now says
>
>andrewr at itd.adelaide.edu.au
>
>	Which is a bit of a hassle as when someone tries to reply to
>it, the post office gateway (we have around 12 post offices) spits it
>back as an invalid post office. It's not what the manual states should
>be happening, either.
>
>	At the same time, mail going out from cc:Mail used to work if
>someone selected the AARNet post office and typed
>"andrewr@itd.adelaide.edu.au", now they get back the following (this
>is the file before it gets imported back into cc:Mail)
>
>------
>Message:
>From: postmaster at AARNet
>Date: 13-Oct-1992 10:29:43
>To: Peter Payne at ITD
>Subject: Undeliverable mail: Processing failure
>Contents:
>Text item:
>These addresses were rejected:
>
>  andrewr@itd.adelaide.edu.au at AARNet: Invalid embedded RFC822 address
>Text item:
>Will you get this????
>
>Peter P.
>------
>
>The answer being no. I assume it's trying to map this to
>andrewr@itd.adelaide.edu.au@AARNet or something similar.
>
>Here's the relevant sections of PMDF.CNF:
>
>------
>...
>ccmail                          $U%ccmail.adelaide.edu.au
>ccmail.adelaide.edu.au          $U@ccmail.adelaide.edu.au
>ITD                             $U%itd.ccmail.adelaide.edu.au
>itd.ccmail.adelaide.edu.au      $U%ITD@ccmail.adelaide.edu.au$E$F
>itd.ccmail.adelaide.edu.au      $U%itd.ccmail.adelaide.edu.au@ccmail.adelaide.ed
>u.au$Ccc_local

the above rule looks to be the reason why you got
	andrewr at itd.adelaide.edu.au

>itd.ccmail.adelaide.edu.au      $U%ITD@ccmail.adelaide.edu.au

these rules for ITD look wrong. What is ITD intended to be? If it is a host
running SMTP trying to send/receive mail from cc:Mail, there is NO reason
to put rewrite rules for them as you did here. If you intended it to be
a Postoffice in the cc:Mail sense, these rules are wrong for that purpose
also. I will need to see the entire PMDF.CNF if things don't work after
you remove the 4 rules above which has ITD in it.

All hosts reachable from the system running PMDF are reachable from cc:Mail
without having any special rules. The cc:Mail user address them as
user@host at AARNET (like you do now), and mail from the user@host will
appear to cc:Mail as From: user@host at AARNET which is repliable.
Mail into the cc:Mail PO running the import utility will have to be
addressed as

user@ccmail.adelaide.edu.au

If there are other PO to be addressed from the outside, then you need
additional rules which we can discuss in more detail if needed.

>...
>cc_local master reverse period 1
>ccmail.adelaide.edu.au
>------
>
>And CC_LOCAL_OPTION.:
>
>CC_GATEWAY_NAME=AARNet
>CC_OUTPUT_FILE_NAME=DKA400:[POST_OFFICE]CCMAIL.IMP
>CC_INPUT_FILE_NAME=DKA400:[POST_OFFICE]CCMAIL.EXP
>
>
>	So my question is - why is it doing this, and what can I do to
>make it do it the way it used to? I've tried a different bunch of
>options on the cc_local line, but it doesn't seem to make any
>difference.

It has nothing to do with the option file.

>
>Thanks in advance,
>		Andrew.
>
>/*
> * Andrew Rutherford                 andrewr@itd.adelaide.edu.au
> * +61 8 228 5669            Real Programmers always confuse Christmas and
> * Room 1060, Adelaide Uni      Halloween because OCT 31 == DEC 25 !
> */
>
>
>

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