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Subject: SMTP <-> DECNET Mail Forwarding
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Date: Fri, 29-May-87 13:54:49 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 29 13:54:49 1987
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Thanks for the many helpful replies.  I got the system working by the following
tricks:
        (1) I turned off the : to . conversion in the sendmail.cf files
            of the SMTP (non-gateway) machines.
            (I have never seen the : used in an ARPANET address, maybe it
             is an old syntax)
        (2) I added a rule in the gateway machines sendmail.cf like         
                # Mail-11 rules
                R$+::$+@gateway_name    $@$1::$2        # strip gateway name

Now from SMTP to DECNET goes like:
                decnet_node::user_name@ultrix_gateway
and mail from DECNET to SMTP goes like
                ultrix_gateway::"user_name@unix_node"
Amazingly enough, REPLY works in both directions.
I just hope that I don't need that : to . translation when our gateway comes 
up on the ARPANET in a few months....
                                john mccalpin
                                mccalpin@fsu.mfenet
                                mcalpin@fsu.bitnet
                                (mccalpin%fsu.mfenet@nmfecc.arpa)