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From: YBMCU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: BITNET
Message-ID: <2214YBMCU@CUNYVM>
Date: 15 May 89 20:24:07 GMT
References: <3115@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <3115@lindy.Stanford.EDU>, GA.JRG@forsythe.stanford.edu (June Genis) says:
>
>In article <25098@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>,
>ulmo@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Brad Allen) writes:
>>
>>BITNET->INTERNET:  you're on your own, ASK YOUR LOCAL POSTMASTER.
>
>To mail from BITNET to the internet use user%host@INTERBIT.
>INTERBIT will be a different host depending on where you are in the
>network topology.  That's all taken care of in the routing tables
>though.  It should be transparent to the user (except that aome
>INTERBITS are running experimental code to do MXing while others
>aren't so you can get erratic results for MX attached sites right
>now).
>
>/June

Actually, that's close but won't work.  In the general case, just mail
to user@host and let the mailers take it from there.  If they are
configured properly, they will wrap it into a BSMTP envelope, and
send it to SMTP@INTERBIT - a fake userid on a fake node connected
to CUNYVM.  The mail will then be intercepted by a gateway machine
which will send it to the Internet, after the required header munging
to produce a reply'able address on the FROM: line.

INTERBIT doesn't exist - there only exists code in the gateway machines
to pass mail destined for SMTP@INTERBIT off to the Internet.

(All of the above is true for IBM VM machines running the Crosswell
mailer.  If not, you may need to do some of this yourself, if your
mailer doesn't take care of it.  However, mail to a userid other
than SMTP will be ignored if directed at INTERBIT, so I expect
that your method won't work - unless you've got a local mailer
that makes the correct transformations.)
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