Maybe Bob (or who it was?) can make a short comment on how they configured
things ...
Like I remember :-)
All I can say is that the SMTP to MAIL-11 gateway is built into Multinet
and you have to be running the Multinet SMTP server as a prerequisite. ISTR
that I used the
decnet.org domain for this, so inbound addresses were of the
form "user at node.decnet.org" where "node" was the HECnet node name.
Outbound
MAIL-11 addresses look like LEGATO::SMTP%"user at somewhere.com".
It wasn't that hard to get it working - the biggest problem I remember was
getting the address rewriting rules correct so that mail was symmetrical
(i.e. somebody on the Internet could reply to a message that originated on
HECnet without needing to fix the reply-to address).
I'd set it up again if there was an application for it, but it was never
really used before. I let it run a year or two and then quit maintaining it
when I upgraded Multinet.
Bob