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From: gih900@csc.anu.oz (Geoff Huston)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Help needed with ANU NEWS and mail.
Message-ID: <1915@csc.anu.oz>
Date: 23 Mar 89 11:02:26 GMT
References: <59@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu>
Organization: VMS NEWS V5.2
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In article <59@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu>, manager@a.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu (Cris Fuhrman, Systems Manager) writes:
> Can anyone tell me how to change the mail prefix on ANU_NEWS V5.7?
>  
> Whenever I want to send mail to the author of an article i.e. REPLY 
> command, it uses IN:: as the prefix of the address.  On our VAX we have to 
> do something like INET%"address".  Can someone tell me how to set up 
> ANU_NEWS to do this?  I looked and looked in the docs for some logical 
> name for the mailer, but wasn't able to find it.  Perhaps I didn't look 
> well enough.

There is a mail configuration file which describes the rules to map internet
addresses into something Mail-11 can comprehend. The file is
NEWS_MANAGER:NEWS_ADDRESS.CNF. Edit this file to use INET% as an internet
address prefix. The following is the distributed news_address.cnf file:

# news_address.cnf
#
# This file contains the address translation rules, which allows site specific
# translation of internet-style address formats into formats acceptable to VMS
# MAIL.
#
# The file has the following format:
#   # (in column 1) is a comment line - the line is ignored
#   internet_address rebuild_rule
#   internet_address rebuild_rule
#      ...
#
# The internet address field must start in column 1 and must not contain space
# characters. The '*' character may be used to force a wildcard match with the
# address being tested. The '?' character matches any single character.
#
# The rebuild rule must be separated from the internet address by at least one
# space character. The '\' character is used as the escape character: normally
# it is used to specify match subsitiutions. (the '\' character itself is
# specified by the sequence '\\'
#
# For example the following rules extract any internet addresses which mention
# the "anu" subdomain and use decnet addressing - otherwise the mail is
# forwarded via decnet to node "gateway" and directed to the PMDF mail handler
# on that node:
#
# this is an example address cnf file
# 1. user@node.anu.oz is mapped to the decnet address node::user
*@*.anu.* \002::\001
# 2. user@node.anu is mapped to the decnet address node::user
*@*.anu   \002::\001
# 3. any other internet format address is mapped to the PMDF gateway system.
*@*       "gateway::in%""\001@\002"""
# 4. DECnet format addresses are left alone
*::*      \001::\002
# 5. anything else is also left alone
*         \001

--
Geoff Huston
gih900@csc.anu.oz.au