[Info-vax] email forwarding

[Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply]

In article <49bd99fc$0$90268$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> > 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.

Strange.  What version of TCPIP are you using?

> 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.

Strange.

> 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.

In my case, it is via the LOCAL_ALIASES.TXT (or whatever the precise 
name is).

I wanted to set up something special; I've achieved that; I noticed a
lot of things along the way.  When I have some time I'll see if I can
track down the correct behaviour.  (There are at least 4 ways to
forward, and when one considers all possible combinations, it's easy to 
lose track.)