[Info-vax] %MAIL-E-INVITMLEN ?

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <jithcb$qnj$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> On 2012-03-03, Snowshoe <no at spam.please> wrote:
> > On 3/3/2012 6:53 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> >
> >> Does my workaround of creating a distribution list file for the
> >> destination email address work ?
> >
> > You mean MAIL> SET FORWARD "@something.DIS" where something.DIS is a 
> > file that contains the alternate username?
> 
> No. On the version of TCP/IP you are running, you can create a file
> called {username}.dis in the SMTP system directory containing a list of
> email addresses a incoming email should be forwarded to when {username}
> is sent a email. As of V5.6 ECO 5, this works just fine as I have it
> in production use.

Yes, works fine.  Note:

   o  You can have an empty file, which results in an SMTP black hole
      with no unpleasant side effects.

   o  You can have local and remote names.

   o  In contrast to the VMS-MAIL forward, this will pass the SMTP 
      message through as-as, i.e. all headers at the top, whereas the
      VMS-MAIL forward will respect your configuration.  I like HEADERS
      so that I can page through messages and just see the basic 
      VMS-MAIL headers, but for relaying I want the SMTP headers to be
      all at the top so that the receiving system processes them 
      properly.

   o  Such a list can be the goal of a VMS-MAIL SET FORWARD command, 
      either done by the user or done by the system manager with
      MAIL> SET FORWARD/USER=FOO BAR at nodename .