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If you generated your configuration with the PMDF
CONFIGURE utility and answered "yes" to the question,
"Are you a BITNET gateway", then a local mailer
was configured for you and you need not undertake the steps discussed
in this section. The usage of the PMDF configuration
utility is described in the OpenVMS edition of the PMDF Installation Guide.
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The first step in creating a local mailer is to create a channel table
entry for the BN_GATEWAY program. The proper format for
this entry is:
bit_gateway bitnet-gateway |
The next thing to do is to place an entry for the mailer mailbox name
in the PMDF alias file. Edit the file PMDF_ALIAS_FILE (on
OpenVMS this logical name usually translates to
PMDF_TABLE:aliases.) and add the following line:
mailer: mailer@bitnet-gateway |
MAILER is recommended (since
it is in common use on BITNET) but any name can be used.
It is also a good idea to have a rewrite rule that maps the mailer name to the proper channel. This is only required if the match-all rule, "." is used, but it will not hurt to have it in any case:
bitnet-gateway $U@bitnet-gateway |
Once these changes have been made any mail sent to MAILER
on the local host will be interpreted as a series of SMTP commands. In
other words, your local mailer is now operational. You can test your
mailer manually by sending a message containing a series of SMTP
commands to IN%"MAILER" using VMS MAIL. For example, the
following set of commands sends a test message to the local postmaster:
HELO test.system MAIL FROM:<postmaster> RCPT TO:<postmaster> DATA From: postmaster To: postmaster Subject: Testing the local mailer This is a test message to exercise the local mailer. . QUIT |
The last thing to do is to register your mailer so that remote sites will know about it. The following section explains how this is done.
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