Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!midway!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UNIX.CIS.PITT.EDU!jjc From: jjc@UNIX.CIS.PITT.EDU ("Jeffrey J. Carpenter") Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Problem with ams Message-ID: Date: 23 Oct 90 11:03:38 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 31 Excerpts from comp.info-andrew: 22-Oct-90 Re: Problem with ams Craig_Everhart@transarc. (1171+0) > Or have you hacked your local sendmail to notice the ``+'' character as > a UID delimiter? Even if so, there's no simple way to tell AMS that > your site uses the ``+'' delimiter rule other than by turning on AMDS; > you can, if you like, disable WP validation entirely, but that doesn't > sound like what you want to do. (Yes, it would be nice to have an > option to tell AMS to use the ``+'' convention independent of AMDS.) > We're guessing at your local config and at what you want to do; feel > free to fill in the gaps. But in any case the ``+'' is a > delivery-system configuration, not something that comes bundled with WP. > Craig We did hack up sendmail. At one point this did work, but I am not sure what comination of options and versions it worked under. We were able to send mail to something like jjc+xxx@unix, and it would take it. Also, when it resolved names on out system, it would add the + to the end (if I typed in jjc@unix, it would become jjc+@unix.cis.pitt.edu after validation). Eventually, we will be running AMDS, but not yet. Our problem is that we can not get rid of sendmail yet. The reason we want to do this is because we want to run a bulletin board facility through AMS using flames. Everything works but this one part. jeff