Thomas - MIM already has a guest account ... I have had fun sending
Johnny smtp emails to that account.
I can give you an account on MARIAH (a real VAX) if you wish, shoot me a
note offline if you decide to follow up ...
Regards
Supratim
On 4/22/20 10:49 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
I've had my fill of FAL and DAP for the moment and
have turned to some
other things as sort of a 'break'.? The Tops-10 NFT client breaks on
certain file names that the 20 sends it, so there is going to be some
debugging to track that down.? Fortunately, a very patient person gave
me PPN on one of their 10's.
Right now, I'm working on bringing the Tops-20 mail system a bit more
up to date with respect to DECnet communications.? These were largely
put aside when full Internet connectivity happened. Still, the PANDA
distribution has some bit rot because I know that certain Columbia
changes for DECnet (to support CCnet) are not there.? I can't imagine
that we didn't send them to MRC; that would have been unthinkable.
Fortunately, I was able to remember enough to put some of them back so
that I got SMTP over DECnet working well, again.? It had been
suffering from about two minute timing delays and now it's
instantaneous between 20's, like I remember.?? Oddly enough, I don't
remember what else ran SMTP over DECnet; I'm certain that RSX and VMS
could have done it.? I think some VMS site might have.
However, most non-SMTP DECnet hosts on CCnet were running Mail-11,
which the 20 also groks.? In fact, it can convert Mail-11 addresses to
SMTP and route over other transports such as PUP, Chaos and TCP/IP as
well as DECnet.? We did a lot of mail routing for CCnet to the
Internet on CU20B, back in the day.
Unfortunately, there is some bit rot in some of the Tops-20 Mail-11
code, so I've got some tinkering to do.? Does anyone have a VMS or RSX
system that they'd care to give me a guest account on?? It doesn't
need any special capabilities; I'm just going to be sending mail and
looking a few raw headers over.
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Supratim Sanyal, W1XMT
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