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From: jjones@andrew.ATL.GE.COM (Jeffrey Scott Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: decnet mail addressing and MH
Keywords: decnet addresses MH
Message-ID: <329@puma.ge.com>
Date: 16 Oct 90 12:56:22 GMT
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Reply-To: jjones@andrew.ATL.GE.COM.UUCP (Jeffrey Scott Jones)
Organization: GE Advanced Technology Labs, Moorestown, NJ
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We have a mixed environment of Ultrix and VAX/VMS systems here, and 
we exchange a lot of mail between these systems.  I have configured our
installation of MH to use sendmail (no SMTP).

The problem that I am having is when my friends in VMS land send a mail
message to me on Ultrix, the message format is in DECNet format.  The
mail header is not received by MH from sendmail in a normal header
format (it is in DECNet format).  So, when I attempt to reply to the
message, MH fails to assemble the return address.

I sent a message to myself with the To: line saying: To: jjones@atl.dnet
here is what I got back:

	Return-Path: atl::FOOBAR::jjones
	Date: Tue, 16 Oct 90 08:12:30 EDT
	From: atl::FOOBAR::jjones (Jeffrey Scott Jones)
	To: atl::jjones
	Subject: test from Mail


	body of message

FOOBAR is the name of the machine that I'm recieving mail on.

I believe that the solution to this problem is to add a rule to
sendmail.cf to rewrite the address on receipt from a DECNet connection,
but I don't have the slightest idea of how to do this.

An interesting note: I tried this exact experiment with Mail(1), and
Mail has no problem dealing with the DECNet format addresses.  DEC must
have munged Mail(1).  I don't think that was the correct choice.

How have you dealt with this?

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Jeffrey Scott Jones                 General Electric
Senior Member, Engineering Staff    Advanced Technology Labs
(609)866-6538                       RT 38, Bldg 145, Moorestown, NJ  08057