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On Jul 10, 2012, at 8:47 PM, Peter Coghlan wrote: On the contrary. Some of us nerds will be doing a "View Headers" on every message just to see the circuitous route it took :) Given this prospect, I thought I'd better set up a MAIL-11 channel in my PMDF configuration and do some tests to see what the headers look like. While all the expected rfc822 headers are there on an incoming message, MAIL-11 does it's bit silently and secretly, leaving little trace of it's leg of the journey. So, there's not very much there for header-nerds. If anyone is interested in playing with receiving internet mail via MAIL-11, despite the lack of exotic headers, let me know and I will add in rules for the node(s) involved. Outgoing mails to the internet also work (from a VMS node at least - I haven't tested with any other OSes). PMDF formats the MAIL-11 From: header so that replying to incoming messages is straightforward. Composing new outgoing messages is little more fiddly but it does work. Mail-11 is very simple compared to Internet mail. It's not store and forward. Instead, when you ask it to send mail to foo::user, it connects -- right then and there -- to the mail listener at foo:: and asks it if "user" is there. If yes, it sends the message across, closes the connection, and it's done. paul