[Info-vax] email forwarding

[Simon Clubley]

On 2009-03-15, Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply
 <helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de> wrote:
> In article <49bd3901$0$90262$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, Simon Clubley
><clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 
>
>> I've never had problems expressing the local usernames as an internet
>> style address - in fact it's the way that all my VMS SMTP distribution
>> lists are setup.
>
> I'm not talking about lists which one can send stuff to by putting "@"
> in front of them at the To: prompt, but rather lists in
> TCPIP$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.)
>

Yes, that's exactly what I am talking about as well.

All my .dis files contain lines of the form:

	local_username@{domain_name}.co.uk

This works perfectly for me, regardless of whether the distribution list
is referenced from the outside world, or internally from within the machine.

How does your machine know that x.y.z is it's name (or a valid alias for
it's name)? In my case, I define the name of the machine, as well as it's
valid SMTP aliases, within the local UCX hosts database.

Simon.

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