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From: david@dalcs.UUCP (David Trueman)
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Subject: Re: more on mail to VMS from Ultrix
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Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 13:28:48 EST
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First of all, let me make it clear to those who have posted news or
responded by mail (thank you, by the way) that this is *not* a sendmail
problem.  The problem can be reproduced by calling mail11 directly, and
bypassing sendmail completely.  Furthermore, it does not appear to be a quoting
problem, as I have tried *many* different combinations, and I am familiar
with shell quoting behaviour.

In article <10278@felix.UUCP> Mike S Marshall writes:  
| *In article <9458@felix.UUCP>, david@dalcs.UUCP (David Trueman) writes:
| *> 
| *> Running DECnet 2.0 on Ultrix 2.0 on a uVaxII, we are trying to send
| *> mail to an address like dal1::"in%user@site" on a VMS machine.  The address
| *> is rejected with a message "error parsing 'IN'".  The rejection is
| *> not by sendmail, but by the mail11 program (I have tried calling mail11
| *> directly). 
| 
|     The same problem occurs with ULTRIX1.2... I have struggled with
|     trying to send stuff across DECnet from ULTRIX to a VMS foriegn 
|     mail escape (the IN% part of the above address) for quite a while.
|     If anyone knows how to do it, please post to the net!

We have found a workaround:  define a system logical on the VMS system,
DAL_IN_PERCENT in our case, to be in%, then send mail to dal1::dal_in_percent::
This, amazingly, works, but it's pretty ugly, and I am still trying to get
sendmail to hide all the ugliness from the users.

In article <10290@felix.UUCP> Edward J Cetron writes: 
| sounds to me like the vms machine is running the pmdf mailserver since
| otherwise the in% construct would be illegal.  check the vms machine
| and make sure pmdf is installed (in_mailshr.exe in particular).

Yes, pmdf is running.  in% addresses work fine from the VMS machine, or
from other DECnet machines running VMS.

| or possibly the actual in%... string
| is getting corrupted on its way to the vms site. 

Possible, but if so, it sounds like an Ultrix bug.

In article <10288@felix.UUCP> jeff@umbc3.umd.edu (Jeffrey Burgan) writes:
| We have Ultrix 2.0, DECnet 2.0, and VMS 4.5 w/ DECNET (not my choice).
| I added the appropriate lines from the sendmail.cf distributed w/
| 2.0 and everything works great. Mail11 works fine from sendmail.

Mail over DECnet that does not attempt to use the in% construct, also works
just fine here.
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