Hey Johnny, I recently installed DECmail-11 on RSTS the other evening, and
I'm noticing some undesirable behavior with the
mim.stupi.net email gateway
going out from inside HECnet.
Firstly, it's worth mentioning that gmail won't accept a recipient address
with colons in it, unless you put double quotes around it.
For example:
MARDUK::PHIBER@mim.stupi.net
...won't be accepted as a recipient, and the message is immediately
red-flagged in gmail.
However, if you do the following:
"MARDUK::PHIBER"@mim.stupi.net
...gmail accepts and delivers it, MIM relays it correctly, and I receive
the email in RSTS. Nice.
Unfortunately, the reverse is failing. If I respond or send mail out from
DECmail, mim.stupi.net's sender address rules reject the message:
This is Postmaster <MIM::POSTMASTER> at MIM::.
I'm sorry, but I could not deliver your mail.
An error occured while trying to send it, and I cannot recover.
Orignal recipient was "PHIBER(a)PHIBER.COM"
Actual error is: Fatal address error.
Additional information:
5.1.7 The sender address <MARDUK::PHIBER@mim.stupi.net> is not a valid
5.1.7 RFC-5321 address. h19-20020a05651c125300b0025e725ef592si33185ljh.300
- gsm
tp
Please let us know if you can correct the sender address restrictions on
mim. I tried with quotes, but that didn't help either. :)
Thanks,
Mark