Hi all,
I am in the process of trying to set up mail. We live in a mixed VMS and
Unix environment. Our corporate mail system is All-In-One, and I am
trying to get the Unix side to talk to it.
When I ran mailsetup on a node that wasn't supposed to be a mail relay,
using the advanced options, there were some questions that I couldn't
follow. One if these was the section headed: Mail Hub/Central Mail
Server. It talks about having BIND MX records. Is this only on the Mail
Server? Or also on clients?
On our BIND nameserver, which is also supposed to be the mail relay, I
have the following entry in the hosts.db file:
_at_ IN SOA netman.pacpower.gov.au. postmaster.netman.pacpower.gov.au
85 ; Serial
300 ; Refresh - 5 minutes
60 ; Retry - 1 minute
1209600 ; Expire - 2 weeks
43200 ) ; Minimum - 12 hours
IN NS netman.pacpower.gov.au.
IN MX 10 netman.pacpower.gov.au.
Is this all that is required??
The next question that puzzles me is the part where mailsetup talks
about the TCP return address format. It recommends option 3,
sender_at_domain, but then tells me that no mail hub is found. Is the mail
hub a layered product? Or do I need to set up something on the mail
relay to turn it into a mail hub?
The next question is about Mail11 names. I have loaded DECnet and the
Internet Gateway software on one of our nodes, but I have trouble
sending mailt to All-In-One and back. All our A-I-1 mail names are in
the format "surname firstname". When I try to send mail to the A-I-1
account, it treats surname and firstname as two different users, and
can't find either of them on the VAX. If I try:
mailx -v -s Test P71286%CLUST2.enet, then this sends mail to user
P71286, no problems.
If I try:
mailx -v -s Test "OPTLAND GARRY"%CLUST2.enet, then it doesn't work. How
do I escape the space between surname and firstname? I have tried a dot
".", but it doesn't work.
One final question, I have heard that PINE is _the_ mail user agent for
Unix. Where can I ftp it from, and is it easy to build for OSF/1?
(Sorry, Digital Unix ;-) )
Help on any of my questions would be greatly appreciated. Even a pointer
to some online documentation, or whatever, would be great.
TIA,
Garry
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Received on Mon Jul 03 1995 - 22:12:01 NZST