[HECnet] SMTP gateways to HECnet?

Bob, Good info! I will take a look at this over the weekend. I wish I had extra parts for the AXP 2000 series. One of mine has bad memory and it has been a real pain to deal with. The working ones have 256MB and for those machine that's a lot. They need those panels for not only dust but because the fans expect them in place for proper cooling. I'm still looking for AHA-1742 rev G2 controllers so I can expand the disk space. Max drive size is 8.0GB due to a limit in the controller firmware. These were the first Alpha's produced so they are probably the slowest. -Steve ________________________________ From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE on behalf of Bob Armstrong Sent: Tue 10/20/2009 11:49 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: RE: [HECnet] SMTP gateways to HECnet? I could probably do this with NetBSD as a front end to deal with spam and then Multinet as the actual gateway. I use PMAS for SPAM filtering my mail, but when I was doing it before I explicitly opted out all the DECnet mail from PMAS processing. The thing is, if you're going to start SPAM filtering for people's DECnet mail, then they need a way to get to their quarantined messages, configure their white/black lists, etc. That's not really a problem (PMAS has a web interface for just this purpose and I'm sure all the other SPAM filters do too) but then people need a browser and a TCP/IP interface to receive their DECnet mail. At some point it all becomes kind of silly. That's why I opted out the DECnet mail from SPAM filtering. Hopefully people don't publish their DECnet addresses on web pages or mailing lists. Like I said, the gateway was hardly ever used so SPAM never became a problem. How much of a load is Multinet on an Alpha (Jensen)? Not much, I would imagine. A Jensen is the slowest Alpha (or does that honor go to the Multia? Can't remember...) but still, Multinet runs just fine on a VAX - even the slowest Alpha ought to be blazingly fast in comparison :-) BTW, do you have any extra Jensen sheet metal parts? I've got a beautiful AXP2000 in the garage, but it's missing its side panel. Gets pretty dusty inside. Bob