[Info-vax] email forwarding

[Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply]

In article <49bd3901$0$90262$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> > 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 ?

If "user" is in the list, where "user" is a VMS username, then the email 
arrives in the corresponding account, whether sent from outside or 
inside.  If I have "user at x.y.z" instead, where x.y.z is the machine 
where the list is, then the mail does not arrive, whether it is from 
outside or inside and, if from inside, whether it is from "user" or from 
another account.

> 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.

I'm not talking about lists which one can send stuff to by putting "@"
in front of them at the To: prompt, but rather lists in
TCPIP$SMTP_COMMON which forward email sent to name at x.y.z, where "name" 
is the filename, e.g. TCPIP$SMTP_COMMON:NAME.DIS.  (Of course one could 
also send to @TCPIP$SMTP_COMMON:NAME.DIS, but that's not what I'm 
talking about.)