HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
Newsgroups: vmsnet.test,alt.test,nj.test,misc.test,eunet.test
Subject: Re: Please respond to this test post!!!
From: codish@chen.bgu.ac.il (Shlomi Codish )
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:14:11 GMT
Organization: Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel

I got it...

Newsgroups: vmsnet.test
From: daved@mc.ti.com (Dave DesRoches)
Subject: Re: ignore
Organization: Texas Instruments
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:38:12 GMT



Dave
Newsgroups: vmsnet.test
From: m0ali001@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
Subject: test
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 11:07:39 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville

This is a test

Xref: sparky vmsnet.test:664 alt.test:14559 nj.test:397 misc.test:12648 eunet.test:503
From: aus@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de (Hans Aus)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.test,alt.test,nj.test,misc.test,eunet.test
Subject: Re: Please respond to this test post!!!
Date: 5 Nov 92 09:59:03 GMT
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany

From article <1992Oct31.143845.122@hsh.com>, by lee@hsh.com (Lee Havemann):
Read your test posting here in Germany so you must be getting past
your neighbir

-- 
Hans M Aus, Institute of Virology, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
e-mail: hans.aus@vax.rz.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de (preferred)
Versbacherstr 7, 8700 Wuerzburg. Fax: Germany +931 201 3934; tel:3954
Newsgroups: vmsnet.test
From: daved@mc.ti.com (Dave DesRoches)
Subject: test posting : ignore!
Organization: Texas Instruments
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:00:49 GMT

Testing Winvn one more time
Newsgroups: vmsnet.test
From: daved@mc.ti.com (Dave DesRoches)
Subject: Re: ignore
Organization: Texas Instruments
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:57:17 GMT

>Regards.
> 
>Don Rolph  a722756@pan.mc.ti.com WD3 MS10-13 (508)-699-1263
From: richard@dorsai.com (richard siegel)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: brother
Date: 10 Nov 92 02:34:39 GMT
Organization: The Dorsai Embassy, New York's Computer Consulate. +1.718.729.5018

My brother goes to SUNY ALBANY and is on the VAX/VMS system there.  He 
told me as part of his address I should put it in Quotation marks, and 
add a *in %* (without asterisks) after it.  should I do this? Or should I 
just send it like ms4468@ALBNYVMS.BITNET
Thank you for any help.
Also, how do I send to his VAX without using Bitnet, or that can't be 
done?
From: "Brian Tillman, Smiths Industries, VAX Support, x8425"
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: RE: New mail announcement broadcast to users should be clusterwide
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:12:14 EST
Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

This sounds as though you have not properly defined MAIL$SYSTEM_FLAGS  In a
cluster, you usually want it defined to be the value "7".  A value of "1" says
the node is part of a homogeneous cluster.  "2" directs mail to broadcast the
receipt message to any logged in terminal for the person (i.e. Mail uses the
$brkthru system service).  A value of "4" tells mail to include the tie of
receipt in the broadcast message.  You may combine these values by adding them
together.  It should be an exec mode logical in the system name table.  Look in
chapter 9 of the Mail Utility manual for an explanation

-----------------------------+--------------------------------
 Brian Tillman               | Internet: tillman@swdev.si.com
 Smiths Industries, Inc.     |           tillman_brian@si.com
 4141 Eastern Ave., MS129    | Hey, I said this stuff myself.
 Grand Rapids, MI 49518-8727 | My company has no part in it.
-----------------------------+--------------------------------
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
From: DAHMS@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de (Heribert Dahms)
Subject: Re: New mail announcement broadcast to users should be clusterwide
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:40:45 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20

In <1992Nov11.165031.2823@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> DAHMS@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de writes:

> We have installed MX3.1C on VMS 5.5-1 .
> The MX processes are running only on our boot node in the LAVC cluster.
> The new mail flag in UAF is set correctly, but the broadcast is sent only
> to the logged in terminals of the corresponding user at the boot node and not
> to this user clusterwide as what is expected like VMS mail. This is very
> annoying, because our users should'nt log in on the boot server of course.
> 
> Is that already a known problem? I'm new in this newsgroup.
> 
> Thanks, Heribert

I solved the problem by
	DEFINE/SYSTEM/EXEC MAIL$SYSTEM_FLAGS 7
and restarting MX. (see Chap. 9 of the "VMS Mail Utility Manual")

This solution is thanks to Matt Madison (madison@TGV.COM).
The same was true for DECnet mail, but we hadn't noticed that.

Heribert
From: "G. Del Merritt" <del@giant.IntraNet.com>
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: Re: VMS MAIL personal names / From: lines
Date: 10 Nov 1992 09:01:25 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

In-reply-to: UUCP%"carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU" 's message of 10-NOV-1992
 06:59:46.96
>In article <0096365E.615FEA60.12219@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT>, "Franz
>>I'm using MX V3.1C, VMS 5.5-1 and i have set a personal name in
>>VMS-mail. When i send a message out it appears as
>>From: "Franz Schoenbauer,Computer Science,Vienna,Austria, +43-1-58801-4126"
>                         ^                ^      ^
>>      <system@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT>
>
>No.  The commas aren't allowed.  The basic format is fine, but you can't use
>special characters ("(",  ")",  "<",  ">",  "@", ",",  ";",  ":",  "\",  ".",
>"[",  "]", or the quote character (") itself) in your personal name.

Goodness; this seems quite foolish, and I know that I've seen "."'s in
personal names before.  Mine happens to be an example; have I been
able, as a mere mortal, to break other folk's mailers with my personal
name?  Or have I simply taken this problem response too much out of
it's original context?  Parsing quoted strings is a pain, but one
which (I thought) has been long and oft solved in the annals of
computer science.

Do you instead refer to the class of _unquoted_ personal names.  Your
rules on special characters make sense as exemplified by:

 From: My name without special characters <bland@mycorp.com>

versus:

 From: "My name, with special, pleasing characters..." <neat@mycorp.com>

It thus becomes the mailer's duty to decide whether or not a
particular personal name requires quoting, not the poor, befuddled
luser.

Del Merritt     del@IntraNet.com        ccavax!giant!del
IntraNet, Inc., 255 Washington Street, Newton, MA  02158
Voice: 617-527-7020; FAX: 617-527-6779
From: "Herve GILIBERT, Universite de St-ETIENNE."
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: Routing mail - Last
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 12:06:10 +0100
Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Thanks for all responses, specialy to Earl Ake, Jonathan E. Hardis and
Alberto Meregalli.
I have implemented Jonathan's method : It works fines.
I probably incorrectly interpreted the RFC 974 :
"If the mailer is on a host which is listed as an MX for the destination host
, the mailer may only deliver to an MX which as a lover preference count than
its own host."
Thanks again
Herve
---------------------------------------------------------------------
                Herve GILIBERT                          UUUU     UUUU
                Universite Jean Monnet St-Etienne       UUUU     UUUU
                23,Rue du Dr. P. Michelon               UUUU     UUUU
                42023 ST ETIENNE Cedex 2                UUUU     UUUU
Tel : 33 77 42 15 79                                    UUUU     UUUU
Fax : 33 77 42 15 75                                    UUUU     UUUU
RFC822: gilibert@univ-st-etienne.fr                      UUUUUUUUUUU
DECNET: 51.31::gilibert                                   UUUUUUUUU
From: "Herve GILIBERT, Universite de St-ETIENNE."
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: RE: Routing mail - Last
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 08:49:43 +0100
Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

>
> Yes, in France, I expect lover preference is really important!
>
Certainly, Brian.
I can't figure myself if it's bug or a feature of my french brain !
---------------------------------------------------------------------
                Herve GILIBERT                          UUUU     UUUU
                Universite Jean Monnet St-Etienne       UUUU     UUUU
                23,Rue du Dr. P. Michelon               UUUU     UUUU
                42023 ST ETIENNE Cedex 2                UUUU     UUUU
Tel : 33 77 42 15 79                                    UUUU     UUUU
Fax : 33 77 42 15 75                                    UUUU     UUUU
RFC822: gilibert@univ-st-etienne.fr                      UUUUUUUUUUU
DECNET: 51.31::gilibert                                   UUUUUUUUU
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: RE: Routing mail - Last
From: "Brian Tillman, Smiths Industries, VAX Support, x8425"
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 10:11:45 EST
Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Herve GILIBERT (gilibert@univ-st-etienne.fr) writes:

>I probably incorrectly interpreted the RFC 974 :
>"If the mailer is on a host which is listed as an MX for the destination host,
>the mailer may only deliver to an MX which as a lover preference count than
>its own host."

Yes, in France, I expect lover preference is really important!

-----------------------------+--------------------------------
 Brian Tillman               | Internet: tillman@swdev.si.com
 Smiths Industries, Inc.     |           tillman_brian@si.com
 4141 Eastern Ave., MS129    | Hey, I said this stuff myself.
 Grand Rapids, MI 49518-8727 | My company has no part in it.
-----------------------------+--------------------------------
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: Re: VMS MAIL personal names / From: lines
From: "G. Del Merritt" <del@giant.IntraNet.com>
Date: 12 Nov 1992 09:02:39 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

In-reply-to: UUCP%"system@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT" 's message of 12-NOV-1992
 04:30:28.72
>A minor question still: what do i have to do to reverse the
>order of appearence, i.e. instead of
>From: system@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT (Franz Schoenbauer)
       ^^^^^^
     (see below)

As a minor point, not directly related to your question: you shouldn't
(99% of the time) ever be sending MAIL from VMS's "SYSTEM" or U*ix's
"root".  Why?

First, it means your doing too much work in a privileged context, and
therefore you are likely to miss details that un-priv'd users will get
caught up on.  To paraphrase DEC's recommendation, "Use SYSTEM only
for system upgrades and special system maintenance like standalone
BACKUP; create a different account for operators, normal backups,
etc..."

Second, some mailers routinely ignore messages from "root" (and I've
seen some configured to ignore "SYSTEM") so to avoid infinite mailer
loops and similar email ills.  This is sometimes intentional defensive
programming.  Sometimes it comes that way "out of the box".

Del Merritt     del@IntraNet.com        ccavax!giant!del
IntraNet, Inc., 255 Washington Street, Newton, MA  02158
Voice: 617-527-7020; FAX: 617-527-6779
From: "Herve GILIBERT, Universite de St-ETIENNE."
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: RE: Mail routing
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 09:13:45 +0100
Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

> Either you or I misunderstand his problem.  As I understand it,
> NODE1.UNIV-ST-ETIENNE.FR is NOT clustered with STROPH, so it CAN'T be a local
> delivery.
You are right, Carl, Node1 is not clustered with the MX node, it is generaly an
UNIX station.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
                Herve GILIBERT                          UUUU     UUUU
                Universite Jean Monnet St-Etienne       UUUU     UUUU
                23,Rue du Dr. P. Michelon               UUUU     UUUU
                42023 ST ETIENNE Cedex 2                UUUU     UUUU
Tel : 33 77 42 15 79                                    UUUU     UUUU
Fax : 33 77 42 15 75                                    UUUU     UUUU
RFC822: gilibert@univ-st-etienne.fr                      UUUUUUUUUUU
DECNET: 51.31::gilibert                                   UUUUUUUUU
From: robert@cpvax.cpses.tu.com
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: Re: New mail announcement broadcast to users should be clusterwide
Date: 11 Nov 92 12:41:48 CST
Organization: Texas Utilities, Glen Rose TX 

In article <1992Nov11.165031.2823@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>, DAHMS@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de (Heribert Dahms) writes:
> We have installed MX3.1C on VMS 5.5-1 .
> The MX processes are running only on our boot node in the LAVC cluster.
> The new mail flag in UAF is set correctly, but the broadcast is sent only
> to the logged in terminals of the corresponding user at the boot node and not
> to this user clusterwide as what is expected like VMS mail. This is very
> annoying, because our users should'nt log in on the boot server of course.
> 

Does local VAXmail notification work correctly?
What version of VMS?
Make sure the logical MAIL$SYSTEM_FLAGS is set correctly.  (Mine is 7)

MAIL$SYSTEM_FLAGS - BIT 0 - all user disks accessable to all cluster nodes.
                            If a node is in the cluster, just write to
   			    the mail.mai file.
 		    BIT 1 - Send new mail notification to all cluster nodes
 		    BIT 2 - include the time in the broadcast message.

Your probably missing bit 1.

-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Robert Eden    817-897-0491                                 Glen Rose, TX
Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station            robert@cpvax.cpses.tu.com
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ politicese for a nuke plant
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
From: madison@tgv.com (Matt Madison)
Subject: Re: VMS MAIL personal names / From: lines
Reply-To: madison@tgv.com
Organization: The Foundation for Dinner Peas
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:06:44 GMT

In article <009637ED.147E5980.12538@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT>, Franz Schoenbauer <system@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT> writes:
>A minor question still: what do i have to do to reverse the
>order of appearence, i.e. instead of
>
>From: Franz Schoenbauer <system@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT>
>
>i'd like to have
>
>From: system@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT (Franz Schoenbauer)
>
>Is this to be done in MX or in VMSmail ?

It cannot be done.  The format the MX uses is the correct one; the other
is an older format which is now being discouraged.  The reason for that
is that the leading phrase on the newer format is specifically for a
personal name, and gateways between SMTP and other mail systems know that
and can propagate the personal name correctly.  In the older form, the comment
following the address is just a comment - any number of which may appear in
an address - and can't necessarily be identified as a personal name.

-Matt
--
Matthew Madison | madison@tgv.com    | +1 408 427 4366
TGV, Inc.       | 603 Mission Street | Santa Cruz, CA 95060 USA
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: Re: I need some help diagnosing an SMTP problem.
From: "Brian Tillman, Smiths Industries, VAX Support, x8425"
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 09:00:48 EST
Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Thanks, Carl.

I contacted the aries system manager.  He said, yes sendmail is screwed up, but
because the system isn't going to be operational very long, he's not going to
fix it.  His solution is "don't send mail to aries."

-----------------------------+--------------------------------
 Brian Tillman               | Internet: tillman@swdev.si.com
 Smiths Industries, Inc.     |           tillman_brian@si.com
 4141 Eastern Ave., MS129    | Hey, I said this stuff myself.
 Grand Rapids, MI 49518-8727 | My company has no part in it.
-----------------------------+--------------------------------
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
From: winter@vision.rs.ch (Martin Winter)
Subject: Re: distribution lists
Reply-To: winter@vision.rs.ch
Organization: RadioSuisse Ltd, Berne, Switzerland
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:44:49 GMT

In article <00962BA8.91F43840.2305@PIB1.physik.uni-bonn.de>, Peter Kobe <system@PIB1.physik.uni-bonn.de> writes:
>Sending messages to a distribution list can be a problem, if you
>use the examples given in the VMS MAIL UTILITY MANUAL page 6 and 7.
>I.e if one uses comments in the the lines.

[stuff deleted]

>Return-Path: <system@PIB1.physik.uni-bonn.de>
>Received: by PIB1.physik.uni-bonn.de (MX V3.1B) id 2296; Tue, 27 Oct 1992
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^
from the Release notes of MX 3.1C:
   4      Bug Fixes

          MX V3.1C provides the following fixes to bugs in
          V3.1B:

          1. MX_MAILSHR was not properly handling comments in
             VMS MAIL distribution files. This has been fixed.

          2. ...

It seems as this error got corrected in MX 3.1C, but I have not tried yet.

Greetings, Martin

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Radio Suisse Ltd,       Internet:  winter@vision.rs.ch
Laupenstrasse 18a                  postmaster@vision.rs.ch
3008 Bern               PSI-Mail: +22846431062::WINTER     (public X.25)
Switzerland             X.400: C=CH; A=ARCOM; P=RS; O=DM; S=WINTER, G=MARTIN
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From: "Franz Schoenbauer,Computer Science,Vienna,Austria, +43-1-58801-4126"
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: VMS MAIL personal names / From: lines
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 08:55:47 EST
Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

I'm using MX V3.1C, VMS 5.5-1 and i have set a personal name in
VMS-mail. When i send a message out it appears as

From: "Franz Schoenbauer,Computer Science,Vienna,Austria, +43-1-58801-4126"
      <system@EIMONI.TUWIEN.AC.AT>

at the unix box. Is this a valid from line ?
I've had trouble suscribing to mailing lists and it turned out
people couldn't use my from line, and were expecting something
like

From: franzi (Franz Schoenbauer)

which is the from line i see when i receive mail from the unix
box on VMS via MX.

Is there anything i can do to change the format of the from line ?
(except dropping the personal name ...)

Thanks,


Franz Schoenbauer, Tech. Univ. Vienna,      schoenbauer@eimoni.tuwien.ac.at
Resselg. 3/188  A-1040, Vienna, Austria     +43(1)58801 ext. 4131
From: hardis@garnet.nist.gov (Jonathan E. Hardis)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: RE: MX From: field question
Date: 5 Nov 92 20:53:45 GMT
Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

> I do have one teensie quirk that I need to get around and am turning to
> you because I am getting nowhere quickly.  Whenever I send mail to anyone,
> whether within or outside my domain, the From field shows up as simply
> user@node with the domain info missing in both VMS and SMTP From fields.
> Recipients cannot simply reply to my message.

If any kind soul ever volunteers to write a FAQ post for this mailing list/
newsgroup, this answer should be near the top of the list.

Here's a recent answer to the same question:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> If you will notice my original Reply-to field is wrong.  The last time I tried
> to change it, I really messed things up.  I need it to read vax.augustana.edu.

            We had the same problem here.  It seems to happen with UCX
        (at least to me, it did), and the way names are put into the local
        hosts database.  Even though the documentation says to put the
        alias as the *first* entry, the proper way to do it is to use the
        "Fully Qualified Domain Name" (FQDN) as the first entry .  You'll
        probably get quite a few responses on this one - it will eventually
        make the FAQ list.  See below for example.

        Good luck.

                                                Mike Frohme

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$ ucx sh host/local bilbo

     LOCAL database

Host address    Host name

141.225.56.13   bilbo.memst.edu, BILBO, bilbo, BILBO.MEMST.EDU

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Michael K. Frohme                              Internet: frohme@bilbo.memst.edu
Center for Earthquake Research & Information   Bitnet:   frohmemk@memstvx1
Memphis State University                       PhoneNet: 901/678-2007
    "... I suppose we *could* network a few tricorders together..."- Geordi
From: "J.C. Higgins, Sys Mgr CsVax1, UCC , Eire" <chris@csvax1.ucc.ie>
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: RE:   MX From: field question
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 18:30:21 EST
Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

In a previous article, karin@zach.fit.edu wrote:
>Hi fellow MX-users,
>
>
>I do have one teensie quirk that I need to get around and am turning
>to you because I am getting nowhere quickly.  Whenever I send mail to
>anyone, whether within or outside my domain, the From field shows up
>as simply user@node with the domain info missing in both VMS and SMTP
>From fields.  Recipients cannot simply reply to my message.  The info
>does show up in the Sender field.  I tried to fix this by adding the
>following logical:
>
>   define/sys/exec mx_vmsmail_from_format "<!AS@!AS.fit.edu>"
>
Check MX_NODE_NAME in MX_DIR:MX_LOGICALS.DAT
It should be the FQDN for your host....

Hope this helps.


/*
PS: If this doesn't work, check to make sure that UCX is configured to
use the FQDN for your host also....

FQDN == Fully Qualified Domain Name....
*/

> .-.|     |    |     | |    /------------------\   Karin Nicholson
> |  |-..-.|/.-.|-..-.|*|/  < karin@zach.fit.edu >  VAX Sys Mgr @ Florida Tech
> `-'| |`-'|\`-'| |`-'|||\   \------------------/   Florida Space Coast LUG Chai
   r


                                                  Chris.

+ J.C. Higgins, Sys Admin  +  Auditor, Computer Science Society, U.C.C.
+ Chris@csvax1.ucc.ie      +
+ Chris@odyssey.ucc.ie     +  If you love something, set it free. If it doesn't
+ sccs6002@iruccvax.ucc.ie +  come back to you, hunt it down and KILL it.
From: "John F. Sandhoff" <syssand@CCVAX.CCS.CSUS.EDU>
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: RE: Mail routing
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 14:27:21 PST
Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

>> I'd like to have E-mails sent to any node on my domain to be routed
>> through my MX node called STROPH.

> What's called for are a list of the exceptions, known only to stroph, where
> the name server isn't used.
>
> DEFINE PATH "node1"                    SMTP/ROUTE="node1.univ-st-etienne.fr"
> DEFINE PATH "node1.univ-st-etienne.fr" SMTP/ROUTE="node1.univ-st-etienne.fr"

Almost. You need to define all possible names as LOCAL. For example, on
my cluster of five CPU's here's a snippet of MCP SHOW:

Domain-to-path mappings:
  Domain="ccvax1.ccs.csus.edu", Path=Local
  Domain="ccvax1.csus.edu", Path=Local
  Domain="ccvax1", Path=Local
  Domain="[130.86.89.1]", Path=Local
  Domain="ccvax2.ccs.csus.edu", Path=Local
  Domain="ccvax2.csus.edu", Path=Local
  Domain="ccvax2", Path=Local
  Domain="[130.86.89.2]", Path=Local

I then use MX records in the Domain Name Service config file to point all
of these machines (ccvax1, ccvax2...) to the actual machine running the
SMTP_Server.

And as was mentioned, ORDER IS IMPORTANT. These must come before the
wildcards!

Hope this helps...

    John F. Sandhoff, University Network Support
      California State University, Sacramento - USA
        sandhoff@csus.edu

Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx