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From: "Brian Tillman, Smiths Industries, VAX Support, x8425"
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: MCP access violates
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 13:45:56 EDT
Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

I've had MCP QUEUE SHOW/ALL/FULL access violate on me several times in the last
few days.  If I enter the command again immediately after, it works.  It seems
to me that it might be happening when something in MX has the queue file tied up
and MCP doesn't handle this correctly.  Has anyone else observed this behavior?

On another note, people have been using MAILQUEUE to view any messages they may
have pending.  If they have no messages, MAILQUEUE shows nothing.  Is there a
way to entice MAILQUEUE to show all of the messages for the person running it so
that they have confirmation their messages have been processed?

On a third note, I dumped the MAILQUEUE image and saw references to X400_INFO
and X.400.  If this a feature that will possibly appear later (an X.400 agent)?

-----------------------------+--------------------------------
 Brian Tillman               | Internet: tillman@swdev.si.com
 Smiths Industries, Inc.     |
 4141 Eastern Ave., MS129    | Hey, I said this stuff myself.
 Grand Rapids, MI 49518-8727 | My company has no part in it.
-----------------------------+--------------------------------
From: "W. Todd Wipke" <system@SECS.UCSC.EDU>
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: Access violations mx 3.1
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 13:56:20 PDT
Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

I have had SMTP Server, MX Smtp, and MX Router dying on one node.  With
image accounting I observed Router died due to access violation after running
27 minutes.  I can't find any debug logs that indicate anything special
was happening at that time.  I noticed some tmp msgs in the MLF directory
like:
MX_ROOT:[000000.MLF]FSV_E32F8A60_009606FB_21601B2D.TMP;1

Command: SENDME INSTR.TEX*
  File INSTR.TEX_PSFONTS has been sent.
  Error sending INSTR.TEX_SAMPLE: assign channel system service request failed

I am wondering if creating a new queue might be worth a try, other than that,
what?
wipke@secs.ucsc.edu
From: goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET (Hunter Goatley)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: RE: disk full situation
Date: 10 Sep 92 10:01:52 GMT
Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

"W. Todd Wipke" <wipke@SECS.UCSC.EDU> writes:
>
>we recently had the disk on which the MX Queue was located fill up, plus
>the system disk of the machine that runs most of the servers had a board
>failure.  Fixing the board brought everything to life (without reboot, ah
>the tolerance of VMS!!!) but the MX Local server kept terminating.  It happened
>because MX had made an entry in the Queue (which required no new disk blocks),
>but could not make the file for the headers and src, etc.  It required manual
[...]
>     It seems like there should be greater rigor to assure that no files
>get deleted unless the entry is removed.  Or to help people recover and do
[...]
>also necessary.  I thing a queue validity analysis would be very useful, and
>rather simple.
>
I've added this to the list (it was probably on Matt's list already).

Hunter
------
Hunter Goatley, VMS Systems Programmer, Western Kentucky University
goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET, 502-745-5251
From: "W. Todd Wipke" <wipke@SECS.UCSC.EDU>
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: disk full situation
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 23:09:26 PDT
Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

we recently had the disk on which the MX Queue was located fill up, plus
the system disk of the machine that runs most of the servers had a board
failure.  Fixing the board brought everything to life (without reboot, ah
the tolerance of VMS!!!) but the MX Local server kept terminating.  It happened
because MX had made an entry in the Queue (which required no new disk blocks),
but could not make the file for the headers and src, etc.  It required manual
comparison and canceling entries for which no files existed in order to get
MX Local out of critical condition and on its feet.  A couple years ago I had
a similar problem for a different reason, msgs couldn't go out for a while
and the body of the msgs got deleted but the entries in the queue remained.
     It seems like there should be greater rigor to assure that no files
get deleted unless the entry is removed.  Or to help people recover and do
validity checking, have an mcp queue function that checks each entry in
the queue against required files in the queue and if there is an entry without
a file, cancel the entry in the queue.  Perhaps this account will inform
people of things to look for when things don't seem right and deamons die
repeatedly.  MX debug for MX Local was helpful, but process accounting was
also necessary.  I thing a queue validity analysis would be very useful, and
rather simple.

MX is great!  I looked for Matt Madison and the TGV gang at the Capitola
Sand Castle contest but there were no computer themes there.
-Todd wipke
UCSC
From: chris@CSVAX1.UCC.IE (J.C. Higgins, Sys Mgr CsVax1, UCC , Eire)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: RE:  Setting host names for Sender and Return path
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:45:03 GMT
Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

In a previous article, <ault@queens.EDU> wrote:
>Subject: Setting host names for Sender and Return path
>
>I want to be able to get certain recalcitrant listserv's (info-vax and
>lanworks, to name two) to send to me @queens.edu.  My local host name is not
>going to be stable in the next few months, but @queens.edu will always be valid
>(at least as long as I'm here, since it's my baliwick).  We're a relatively new
>Internet site and I'd like to get some way of doing subscriptions that won't
>use local host names before turning our users loose and having to re-subscribe
>the world when we change host names.  Note that we don't have a local DNS so I
>can't diddle DNS settings at will.
>
>Thanks
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Richard H. Ault, Computing Services Center      ault@queens.edu
>Queens College, 1900 Selwyn Ave                 ault@alumni.caltech.edu
>Charlotte, NC 28274-0001                        (704) 337-2303

I can think of two possible things you could do.
1. Presumably all mail is routed through QUEENS.EDU, you could change the
   rewrite rules there on mail messages. So that @host.queens.edu becomes
   @queens.edu
2. Use MLFAKE to do the subscriptions to whatever lists you want to subscribe
   to.

The first one would do the job, if @queens.edu has some way of knowing which
local host you are on, or if you have an account on it. I get the impression
from your message, that you want EVERYONE on the local hosts to have a return
address @queens.edu, if this is so, then this would seem to be your only
option.
If you only want to do it for certain users, or certain lists. then it might
be easier/better to ue MLFAKE.

Of course I could be wrong. It is early in the morning. (Well, relatively) :)


                                                  Chris.

+ J.C. Higgins, Sys Admin  +  If you love something, set it free. If it doesn't
+ CHRIS@csvax1.ucc.ie      +  come back to you, hunt it down and KILL it. If
+ SCCS6002@iruccvax.ucc.ie +  that doesn't work, then GIVE UP peacefully.
From: Hunter Goatley <goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET>
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: RE: Trapping bounced mail.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 11:39:17 EDT
Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

"Bob Johns, (604)363-6520" <bob@ccs.ios.bc.ca> writes:
>
>The key thing I would like to see, if this "forward to POSTMASTER" should
>be implemented, is to have it configurable.  I don't have the resources
>to intervene, so want a fully automatic "black box".  I would disable
>this feature for our site.
>
If/when I do it, it'll be completely optional and you'll be able to
specify whether or not the message body should be included in bounced
mail.

Hunter
------
Hunter Goatley, VMS Systems Programmer, Western Kentucky University
goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET, 502-745-5251
From: Hunter Goatley <goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET>
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: RE: MCP access violates
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 05:43:41 EDT
Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

"Brian Tillman, Smiths Industries, VAX Support, x8425" writes:
>
>I've had MCP QUEUE SHOW/ALL/FULL access violate on me several times in the last
>few days.  If I enter the command again immediately after, it works.  It seems
>to me that it might be happening when something in MX has the queue file tied u
p
>and MCP doesn't handle this correctly.  Has anyone else observed this behavior?
>
I've seen it occasionally, but it's rare and very hard to reproduce,
as you've seen.

>On another note, people have been using MAILQUEUE to view any messages they may
>have pending.  If they have no messages, MAILQUEUE shows nothing.  Is there a
>way to entice MAILQUEUE to show all of the messages for the person running it s
o
>that they have confirmation their messages have been processed?
>
Currently, there's not, though I agree that it would be a very useful
addition.  I've added it to the list....

>On a third note, I dumped the MAILQUEUE image and saw references to X400_INFO
>and X.400.  If this a feature that will possibly appear later (an X.400 agent)?
>
Got me....

Hunter
------
Hunter Goatley, VMS Systems Programmer, Western Kentucky University
goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET, 502-745-5251
From: sabotkap@woods.ulowell.edu (Pete Sabotka)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.misc
Subject: internet mail addresses syntax
Date: 5 Sep 92 23:08:46 GMT
Organization: University of Lowell

Sorry for the easy questions, I am Internet-illiterate!

What is the significance of a "!" in an internet address ?  
I often see addresses from the INFO-VAX mailing list with several 
internet domain names separated by a "!".
For example:

From:  MX%"address1.vms.edu!address2.vms.edu!sabotkap@woods.ulowell.edu"
			   ^                ^

While I'm posting, what does a "%" mean as well in an internet mail address
after a username?

pete
^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v-^-v^-v-^
Pete Sabotka, Meteorology Dept.           DECnet:  WOODS::SABOTKAP
University of Massachusetts - Lowell        Inet:  sabotkap@woods.ulowell.edu
One University Avenue                      Phone:  (508) 459-4930
Lowell, MA      01854             Likes his eggs:  Over well
From: hurtta@cs.Helsinki.FI (Kari E. Hurtta)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.misc
Subject: Re: internet mail addresses syntax
Date: 6 Sep 92 20:01:04 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland

In article <1992Sep5.180846.1@woods.ulowell.edu> sabotkap@woods.ulowell.edu (Pete Sabotka) wrote:
> Sorry for the easy questions, I am Internet-illiterate!
> 
> What is the significance of a "!" in an internet address ?  
> I often see addresses from the INFO-VAX mailing list with several 
> internet domain names separated by a "!".
> For example:
> 
> From:  MX%"address1.vms.edu!address2.vms.edu!sabotkap@woods.ulowell.edu"
> 			   ^                ^
> 
> While I'm posting, what does a "%" mean as well in an internet mail address
> after a username?

If I read wording of RFC 819 correct, then:

Only woods.ulowell.edu in this address have internet address.
All left from that address are supposed that woods.ulowell.edu
know what it is.

That address1.vms.edu!address2.vms.edu!sabotkap seems to me
as some sort UUCP-bang address. That is valid
'local part' in the BNF specification (in Appendix A of RFC 819).

- K E H
( Kari.Hurtta@Helsinki.FI,
  hurtta@cc.Helsinki.FI,
  hurtta@cs.Helsinki.FI,
  HURTTA@FINUH.BITNET
)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
Subject: User defined directory service?
From: James Dryfoos - Postmaster <dmpm%dukemc.bitnet@ymir.claremont.edu>
Date: 14 Sep 1992 18:42:06 -0500 (EST)
Organization: Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC, USA
Return-Path: <epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU>
Resent-Date: 14 Sep 1992 18:42:06 -0500 (EST)
Resent-From: epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU
Errors-To: epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU
Resent-Message-ID: <01GOS3KXJD1E984XOK@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU>
X-Vms-To: IN%"ipmdf@ymir"
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT

We have a database matching user full names, dept , ... to their mail id.
I would like to interface this somehow into PMDF.  What I want to be
able to do is to have a "user defined" directory capability.  For example,
I may want to permit a query structure that is last.first@mc.duke.edu
where one may have only a piece of that last name (i.e. would have to allow for
combinations of possibilities as well as multiple identical names).

As far as I can tell, PMDF only allows a one-to-one matching (i.e.  jim =
dryfo001 or dryfoos.jim = dryfo001).  I would like to do more than this.
Perhaps I need a rewrite rule that maps * to my homebrew channel?  Is
this possible?  I have currently been adding an alias for all users that
are not on the local system and that must go through my homebrew channel.
Once in my channel, I can do anything with the destination address.

Appreciate any responce or suggestions.  Sorry if I have just
overlooked something that already exists.

The only other thing is that this mechanism will need to support thousands of
user names.

-Jim

   =======================================================================
      James D. Dryfoos -- Postmaster    |  dmpm@mc.duke.edu
      Duke University Medical Center    |  dmpm@dukemc.bitnet
      Box 2914 DUMC                     |  (919) 684-6421 - office
      Durham, NC 27710 Earth            |  (919) 684-8675 - fax
   =======================================================================
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
Subject: Defragment channel
From: Bob Tinkelman <bob@camb.com>
Date: 15 Sep 1992 12:12:28 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Cambridge Computer Associates, Inc.
Return-Path: <epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU>
Resent-Date: 15 Sep 1992 12:12:28 -0400 (EDT)
Resent-From: epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU
Errors-To: epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU
Resent-Message-ID: <01GOT3VUABOI9FMCX9@INNOSOFT.COM>
X-Vms-To: IN%"info-pmdf"
X-Vms-Cc: TINKELMAN
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT

I am trying to use 4.1 facilities to fragment large messages and then
reassemble them between two systems that communicate via PhoneNet.
The sending system is breaking the large messages into smaller
components with what appear to be reasonable MIME headers indicating
the multiple parts.  However, the message is not being reassembled.
The pieces are delivered individually at the 2nd system.  I assume
I've misconfigured something at that end.

I could use a pointer to documentation on how to configure the
target system.  Is there an options file that controls things like
how long the fragments are allowed to sit around before being
forwarded, as is, unreassembled?  etc.

I tried searching the pmdf_root:[doc]*.sdml for `defragment' but,
if the information was there, I missed it.

BTW, this appears to be a feature that will help us a lot on this
particular link which is used to transfer, via 19.2K PhoneNet, some
really large, multimegabyte files.

Regards - Bob Tinkelman
From: dave Mulvihill - Technical Support x-6993
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
Subject: Tracking down problem with PMDF-MR
Date: 4 Sep 92 19:20:18 GMT
Organization: The Internet
Return-Path: <epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU>
Resent-Date: 04 Sep 1992 15:20:18 -0400 (EDT)
Resent-From: epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU
Errors-To: epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU
Resent-Message-ID: <01GOFSJCNHOU96VMU9@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU>
X-Vms-To: IN%"info-pmdf@ymir.bitnet"
X-Vms-Cc: DPMSYS
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT


I keep getting OPCOM broadcasts such as the following from the PMDF symbiont:

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM   4-SEP-1992 15:04:25.93  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on VAXA
%PMDF-W-PRCSMBWRN, PMDF process symbiont non-fatal warning

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM   4-SEP-1992 15:04:25.95  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on VAXA
%PMDF-W-MRLSUBERR, Error submitting PMDF-MR master for local mailbox "MAILGATE",
    status = 178028674
-PMDF-E-HOST, Illegal host/domain in address "!AD"

Is this just the symbiont letting me know about every message returned due
to incorrectly formed To: address ?  Or is there an actual problem here?

Mail is not accumulating in the queue and I can't find any hard errors
in the log files for MR_LOCAL.  (debug and logging are on)  If its just
letting me know that its bouncing a particular message back due to incorrect
address, I rather not bother my operations staff with this.  Can I turn off
that particular broadcast?

Dave Mulvihill      (Postmaster)        Allin1: MULVIHILL DP
Systems Programmer                      Email:  dpmsys@ritvax.BITNET
Information Systems & Computing                 dpmsys@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
VAX/VMS, ULTRIX Technical Support
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY, 14623 (716) 475-6993
From: ned@innosoft.com (Ned Freed)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
Subject: RE: `Disconnected' remote PhoneNet dial-in processes
Date: 3 Sep 92 05:40:32 GMT
Organization: The Internet
Return-Path: <epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU>
Resent-Date: 03 Sep 1992 12:40:32 -0700 (PDT)
Resent-From: epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU
Errors-To: epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU
Resent-Message-ID: <01GOCJNYGCHU95PA4S@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU>
X-Vms-To: IN%"bob@camb.com"
X-Vms-Cc: IPMDF
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT

The logout message is itself the problem. The SLAVE command file kills
the process with a STOP/ID=0 to avoid production of this message. Somehow
in the way you have things set up you are producing a logout message. This
has to be stopped.

				Ned
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
Subject: RE: The "Sender:" header and [exe]return.exe
From: Ned Freed <ned@sigurd.innosoft.com>
Date: 15 Sep 1992 14:20:46 -0700 (PDT)
Organization: The Internet
Return-Path: <epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU>
Resent-Date: 15 Sep 1992 14:20:46 -0700 (PDT)
Resent-From: epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU
Errors-To: epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU
Resent-Message-ID: <01GOTEMNX6K29852CQ@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU>
X-Vms-To: IN%"gilles@cismhp.univ-lyon1.fr"
X-Vms-Cc: IPMDF
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT

> My configuration: PMDF 4.1-7 & VMS 5.5-1
> [exe]return.com does not send the warning message to the "Sender:"
> header address when this address is not embedded between "<",">"
> characters. Some discussion lists sends mails with such a header, for
> instance:

> Sender: owner-info-nets@think.com

First, there is no sensitivity in PMDF to <> on addresses. PMDF simply does not
care if the angle brackets are present or not.

Second, returning mail to the Sender: address is totally incorrect. It is a
blatant violation of standards (see RFC1123 for details) and can cause major
operational problems, including message loops.

> when
> Sender: "The info-nets discussion list" < owner-info-nets@think.com >
> would work. It's a bit annoying because the warning message is sent to
> the original author.

The way this is controlled is either by setting the envelope From: address
(which appears as the Return-path:) or the nonstandard Errors-to: address. PMDF
will honor Errors-To: if it is present; this is an extension to the standards
which say the Return-path: should always be used for returning messages.

Lists which don't set a proper Return-Path: can expect to have messages
returned to whatever address is in the original Return-path: (usually the
message originator).

There is no option in PMDF to use the Sender: header for returns, and in view
of the fact that this would amount to a massive violation of standards there
never will be such an option.

> Another question: in PMDF 4.0, I could exclude a channel of the
> "return" mechanism by setting the exclude_list symbol in [exe]return.com.
> How can I achieve such a restriction in PMDF 4.1 ?
> Thank in advance for any help.

Set the notices timeout value to a huge value and return will never process
messages on that particular channel. The exclude_list mechanism was never
documented or supported.

				Ned
From: klensin@infoods.mit.edu (John C Klensin)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
Subject: Handling of aliases via Option Name_table_name
Date: 3 Sep 92 10:46:57 GMT
Organization: The Internet
Return-Path: <epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU>
Resent-Date: 03 Sep 1992 14:46:57 -0400 (EDT)
Resent-From: epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU
Errors-To: epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU
Resent-Message-ID: <01GOCHRUMWNM95P8K0@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU>
X-Vms-To: IN%"info-pmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU"
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT
Mail-System-Version: <VAX-MM(312)+TOPSLIB(155)+PMDF(4.1)@INFOODS.MIT.EDU>


The Options file entry "name_table_name" can be used to specify
a logical name table "to be searched for address aliases".

Two questions:

(1) is this searched before the conventional "aliases." file and its
database or after it?  Are the targets of these equivalence-name aliases
processed back through the rewrite rules as the "aliases." entries are,
are are they processed only as part of delivery actions?

(2) Is there any reasonable way to test whether such a search resulted
in a "hit?".  It appears that one might be able to do this with a
  $[image,...]
rule that searched the logical name table itself, but is there an
easier/better way?  If not, does anyone have such code lying around that
could be examined or scrounged?

thanks,
   john
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
Subject: RE: User defined directory service?
From: "Daniel C. Newman" <dan@innosoft.com>
Date: 15 Sep 1992 09:40:56 -0700 (PDT)
Organization: The Internet
Return-Path: <epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU>
Resent-Date: 15 Sep 1992 09:40:56 -0700 (PDT)
Resent-From: epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU
Errors-To: epmdf@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU
Resent-Message-ID: <01GOT4UTGTQA984YTY@YMIR.CLAREMONT.EDU>
X-Vms-To: IN%"DMPM%DUKEMC.BITNET@ymir.claremont.edu"
X-Vms-Cc: IPMDF
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT

> We have a database matching user full names, dept , ... to their mail id.
> I would like to interface this somehow into PMDF.  What I want to be
> able to do is to have a "user defined" directory capability.  For example,
> I may want to permit a query structure that is last.first@mc.duke.edu
> where one may have only a piece of that last name (i.e. would have to allow for
> combinations of possibilities as well as multiple identical names).
>
> As far as I can tell, PMDF only allows a one-to-one matching (i.e.  jim =
> dryfo001 or dryfoos.jim = dryfo001).  I would like to do more than this.
> Perhaps I need a rewrite rule that maps * to my homebrew channel?

No, this would have nothing to do with rewrite rules.  You'd identify all
addresses destined for your channel by the domain name (just like the
directory channel does).

>  Is this possible?  I have currently been adding an alias for all users that
> are not on the local system and that must go through my homebrew channel.
> Once in my channel, I can do anything with the destination address.
>
> Appreciate any responce or suggestions.  Sorry if I have just
> overlooked something that already exists.

You might consider using the directory channel as a starting point and
modify it (the code) to do your style of name matching.  Note also that there
is a channel called, I believe, Name Router, which does name matching of the
sort I think you're looking for.  Name Router was, if I recall correctly,
originally authored by Tom Wade.  It is available from various sites via
anonymous FTP.  (I don't keep track of which sites though.)

Dan