Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!mende From: mende@aramis.rutgers.edu (Bob Mende) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: re: naive VMS mail question Message-ID: <727@aramis.rutgers.edu> Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 03:27:31 EDT Article-I.D.: aramis.727 Posted: Mon Jun 1 03:27:31 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jun-87 04:50:29 EDT References: <12306912319.9.OC.HULVER@CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 26 To: OC.HULVER@CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU > I have never heard of 'mailer', but I suspect you need to put quote > marks around your forwarding address. Try this as a stab in the dark: > set forward mailer%"""""" > (this assumes 'mailer' is a protocol and not a node name) > If 'mailer' is a node name, then maybe try this: > set forward mailer::"""""" > I am interested in hearing what finally works. mailer!foo@bar is the kludge that comes with TWG tcp-ip. What is it? it is a bogus user that can receive mail. Once every X minutes it takes all that mail it has and sends it out to the ethernet. It uses the *COMMENT* field of the to: field to get an adress. Thus mailer!mende@aramis.rutgers.edu is received by mailer as to: mailer!mende@aramis.rutges.edu it then strips off the mailer! and wala... there is an address. the problem with this is that the comment field is just that ... and VMS mail will not pass such useless data on in a forward. Thus if you SET FOR mailer!"""mende@aramis.rutgers.edu""" VMS mail will show that mail is forwarded to mailer!"mende@aramis"... but it will only mail to mailer. I have hacked for days on end on trying to get mail forwarded off a system like this with no luck ... if anyone does know how ... *PLEASE* post it or mail it to me and I will post it... Bob -- mende@rutgers.edu {...}!rutgers!mende mende@zodiac.bitnet