[Info-vax] email forwarding

[Simon Clubley]

On 2009-03-15, Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply <helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de> wrote:
> In article <gpih5p$r8b$1 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de
> (Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply) writes: 
>> 
>> The distribution list in TCPIP$SMTP_COMMON (which I've defined as a 
>> search-list logical name; the second translation is the default one 
>> (SYS$SPECIFIC:[TCPIP$SMTP]) and the first one is on a non-system disk) 
>> is, as far as I know, the only way to forward email to a list.  It is 
>> also, as far as I know, the only way to forward email while keeping all 
>> the headers in one block, so that they will be recognised as headers.
>
> Something else about this method: if it contains an internet-style 
> address on the same machine, the email will NOT be delivered.  However, 
> email to local addresses (e.g. VMS usernames) will be.  Bug or feature?
>

Can you give an example ?

I've never had problems expressing the local usernames as an internet
style address - in fact it's the way that all my VMS SMTP distribution
lists are setup.

Simon.

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