[Info-vax] email forwarding

[Simon Clubley]

On 2009-03-16, Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply
 <helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de> wrote:
> 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?
>

I've been doing this for a long time, so I forgot when I started, but I've
been doing it for at least the V5.x versions, including the current V5.6
version.

>> 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 must admit I didn't know about this file - I've always used aliases
within the UCX hosts database. I think I will go and reread the
documentation to see if the preferred alias method has changed.

The only advice I can offer is to try entering the aliases in the UCX
hosts table and see if that works. If it doesn't, I don't really have
any ideas why it's not working, because out of all the problems I've had
with UCX over the years, this has not been one of them.

Simon.

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