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(probably v stupid) question re aims and aims localtalk bridge

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From: Matthew Zandstra
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 1995 00:00
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I am trying to provide email access to users of a small LocalTalk network
using a standard dial up account. I have had endless trouble klutzing
around with AIMS and AIMS Localtalk Bridge.

My first problem was that incoming mail was being ignored by Eudora. I
seem to have fixed this by setting Addmail to multi-user mode and changing
its host from post.demon.co.uk to a directory path which points at a
clearing folder which AIMS is set to save all mail to. I then let Addmail
redirect mail to each user's dropfile. Users can access their mail using
filesharing and their own Eudora settings. This seems to work. By the same
token there seems to be no problem with mail going out to other domains
(with the help of AIMS Localtalk Bridge).

My real problem now is that internal mail doesn't seem to go anywhere.
Ideally I would like it to be sent out to post.demon.co.uk and then come
back in the normal way. But when I send test mail from
testuser@zink.demon.co.uk to testuser@zink.demon.co.uk, AIMS seems to go
into some kind of loop - the debug window endlessly repeating:

Moving message from testuser@zink.demon.co.uk to testuser@zink.demon.co.uk

I have tried fiddling with the sending setup in AIMS but with no
appreciable results. I am somewhat hampered by my monumental ignorance
here. 

Am I barking up entirely the wrong tree with this setup? Any suggestions
gratefully received.

Thanks

Matt

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Matthew Zandstra
matt@zink.demon.co.uk
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