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2 total messages Started by Tom Markson Tue, 19 Mar 1991 03:47
MMDF machine to machine mappings?
#42
Author: Tom Markson
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1991 03:47
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Can machine to machine mappings be done under mmdf in Open Desktop?  For
instance, I receive mail from person@company.com.  Now, if I try to
send mail to them, I get huge amounts of bounced messages.  If I send
it to person@machine.company.com, it gets through.  Now I know that their
mailer is screwed up, but I've got to fix it on my end.

Another case in which I have problems is this:
         uucp
Machine A -> Machine B
                  \   <-------uucp
		   My Machine

I receive mail this way, but want to reply directly to machine A without
going through machine B.  The From: Address I get is machineA!person@machineB.
I need to reduce this to machineA!person.  I have a uucp line to machine A,
but cannot seem to get any of the alias files to cope with this.

Any help with this would be MUCH MUCH appreciated.  Constantly rewriting
reply addresses is driving me completely mental...
--
Tom Markson					Unix Systems
email: thomasm@ingres.com
Re: MMDF machine to machine mappings?
#43
Author: David Fiander
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1991 19:14
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In article <1991Mar19.034748.15021@ingres.Ingres.COM> thomasm@snoopy.Ingres.COM (Tom Markson) writes:
>Can machine to machine mappings be done under mmdf in Open Desktop?  For
>instance, I receive mail from person@company.com.  Now, if I try to
>send mail to them, I get huge amounts of bounced messages.  If I send
>it to person@machine.company.com, it gets through.  Now I know that their
>mailer is screwed up, but I've got to fix it on my end.
>
It depends.  If you just want to map from "company.com" to
"machine.company.com" unconditionall (e.g. all mail to sco.com goes to
sosco.sco.com), then it's simple.  Add an entry to the appropriate
domain table (ie "com", or "") of the form

	company:	machine.company.com	(in the "com" domain)
or
	company.com:	machine.company.com	(in the "" domain)

>Another case in which I have problems is this:
>         uucp
>Machine A -> Machine B
>                  \   <-------uucp
>		   My Machine
>
>I receive mail this way, but want to reply directly to machine A without
>going through machine B.  The From: Address I get is machineA!person@machineB.
>I need to reduce this to machineA!person.  I have a uucp line to machine A,
>but cannot seem to get any of the alias files to cope with this.

Are you sure that it's not going directly to machineA if you just reply?
If ap=822 is set on the UUCP channel, then machineA!person@machineB will
probably be rewritten on the way out, and the channel tables for UUCP
should contain a line specifying the direct connection to machineA, so
mail destined for it shoudl go directly.  NOTE: I am not as certain about
this as I am about your first problem; getting a detailed answer would
take a lot more information than I have right now.

>Any help with this would be MUCH MUCH appreciated.  Constantly rewriting
>reply addresses is driving me completely mental...
>--
>Tom Markson					Unix Systems
>email: thomasm@ingres.com

David J Fiander
SCO MMDF Development Team
SCO Canada, Inc.
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