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From: richl@penguin.USS.TEK.COM (Rick Lindsley)
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Subject: Re: more on mail to VMS from Ultrix
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Date: Sun, 25-Oct-87 20:14:38 EST
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In article <9995@felix.UUCP> david@dalcs.UUCP (David Trueman) writes:

> Ultrix 2.0, DECnet 2.0 to a VMS machine.  I can bypass sendmail directly
> to remove that variable, and invoke:
> 
> 	/usr/bin/mail11 david David dal1 'in%"david@dalcs.uucp"'
> 
> and I get the error message right away:
> 
> /usr/bin/mail11: %MAIL-E-SYNTAX, error parsing 'IN'

I can provide a sendmail config file which gateways nicely to VMS machines,
provided you have an Ultrix/Decnet gateway. If this gateway is called, say,
"foo", VMS hosts can reach the outside world from MAIL by sending to
foo::ihnp4::ucbvax::wherever::whoever. This address gets translated to look
like it came from ucbvax!ihnp4!foo!vmshost!user; in other words; transparent
to other Unix systems. It has the advantage of keeping VMS syntax on the VMS
side (none of that site::"user@unix") and the Unix syntax on the Unix side.

The config file, with comments, is 390 lines long and so I hesitate to post
it to this list. I'll entertain mail requests until they overwhelm me; if
necessary I'll post it to a source newsgroup and/or provide it in some
other public way to members of this mailing list.

Anyone fairly familiar with sendmail config files will be able to extend
this in any number of ways. Here at Tek we use a very similar config file
to handle subdomains ... such as that of my home machine penguin
(penguin.uss.tek.com). The sample I'm providing carries the following caveats:

    * assumes one level of domaining: i.e., xxx.tek.com
    * assumes one Ultrix/Decnet gateway (on which this conf file will reside)
    * assumes one "smart gateway" you can pass off unknown addresses to. If you
	don't have this, or your Ultrix gateway IS your smart machine
	(the court of last resort), you will need to make slight changes
	near the end of Ruleset 0 to return an error message rather than
	forward the message to the gateway.
    * because I'm assuming you can hand off mail to a smart gateway, it does
      not contain support for uumail, if you are using that, but
      support for it would be relatively simple to add.

Rick

PS As to your specific question ... I believe that mail11 is unhappy about
    the %. As a test, try "in::dalcs.uucp::david" instead. (no quotes).