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From: james@hpopd.HP.COM (James Kay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: mail problem b/t HPDESK & foreign system
Message-ID: <8490015@hpopd.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Nov 90 10:48:46 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard ING-PWD, UK.
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> I am using HP300 (MPE XL Operating System) and HPDESK ver B.03.B0.
> I have a problem on mailing between HPDESK and foreign systems. When mail 
> is delivered by the truck from foreign system, a ARPA file is created and
> the field sender in the ARPA file is looked this :-
> Sender:  "J wilkinson (J.wilkinson@ucq.edu.au)"@[vaxen/ux]
>                                |                  |
>                          foreign address        gateway
> 
> if the length of the string inside the () bracket is longer than 32
> characters then HPDESK will ignore that string and therefore the sender 
> address will become "J wilkinson /vaxen/ux" which is incorrect and cannot 
> be used for replying.
> 
> Is anyone out there knows how to overcome the 32 characters restriction
> or any different format of the sender field that HPDESK is also used,
> please mail to me on the email address below.
> 
> Thank in advance.
> Have a nice day.
> Phong.
> 
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> Phong Thanh LA,                                 PSInet: p.la@ucq.edu.au 
> University Computing Services,                  AARNet: p.la@ucq.edu.au
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I have been passed your message to answer.

Though I cannot be certain this will work with the address format
that you are using, what you could do is to change your application
to add on the end of the input IPC file to the arpa truck an
indicator that will force the foreign address part to be extended,
rather than as part of the name. ie

JOE SOAP /NODE &
(FOREIGN ADDRESS)  rather than

JOE SOAP (FOREIGN ADDRESS) / NODE.

You should put an ascii "1" in the column to the right of the
"suppress message header" indicator.

The extended foreign address field can be up to 512 characters long.

I hope this is helpful (and indeed works!)

Regards


Martin Leech
HPDESK development team
HP UK.