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Subject: Re: Sydney m400 <-> uucp
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In article <123@grassys.UUCP> ror@grassys.UUCP (Richard O' Rourke) writes:
>
>I'm trying to set up a uucp/unix mail gateway to (now defunct)
>Sydney Development's M400 mail system.  The administrators
>manual (Nov. 1988, SDC-02122-00, the only manual I have on m400)
>says that it can be done but points out:
>
>"the administrator must know how to route such messages to the
>proper MTA"
>
>Chap 4 comes close to explaining how, but not quite.
>
>The systems running M400 are a collection of 286 and 386 boxes
>running Xenix and I want to communicate with an ESIX 386 system
>with HDB, but without m400.  The m400 version claims to be 1.4.1.
>A plus would be to set up the main m400 box as a nameserver
>for the uucp site, but for now I'd be happy to have the M400 MTA
>pass messages to certain usernames off to unix mail, (then on to uucp
>if necessary), and incoming mail messages from rmail into M400. I
>have no qualms about mixed addresses.  So on the ESIX system
>
>mail m400sys!user@sys.domain.etc\C=CA
>
>Where m400sys is running m400, would work.  Here, I at least need smail.
>In the opposite direction, I want the m400 address:
>
>my_username@m400sys.domain.etc\C=CA
>
>To end up in my unix mailbox.  It can end up in a unix mailbox on
>m400sys for all I care, because once Xenix mail gets it (or certainly
>if I install smail) I can alias my_username to my_machine!my_username.
>
>Anyone built this wheel?  Ideas?  Any former Sydney staff?  Anyone
>>from ean?
>
>-- 
>
>Richard O'Rourke           (604)436-1995           ...uunet!mplex!grassys!ror
>Grass Root Systems   4372 Garden Grove Drive   V5G 4G6   Burnaby, B.C. Canada


After the fallout from the collapse of Sydney, a new company emerged
called OSIWARE formed by many of the Sydney staff who can provide
support and development of the m400 products.
They can be contacted at +44 344 863430 in the UK.  They still have
an office in Canada but I do not know its number.
With regard to the particular query.
They used to provide (optionally) an RFC822 gateway, which would
provide exactly the kind of facility you require.  But, I guess
>from the questions this is not installed.
My suggestion would be to check whether this can be obtained.
Otherwise, a shell script could be written to pull X.400 mail and redirect
it to a UUCP server.
The NUA used does not parse, it should be of the form:-
      user\@subdomainlist.PRMD/C=country/ADMD=admin