On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 8:15 AM, Peter Coghlan <cct...@beyondthepale.ie> wrote:
> > > > Thanks for your reply. My error I meant send email to > > sys...@microvax3100.vintagecomputer.net > > > > Multinet is an excellent TCP/IP stack but the SMTP server included with it > is a bit limited and V4.1 is old. If you allow it to accept SMTP mail > directly > from the internet, it may be difficult or impossible to secure it against > exploitation as a spam relay which would cause lots of problems for others > as well as yourself. > > Having said that, it should be possible to feed mail to it from a more > capable > internet facing SMTP mail server or set it up to send/receive SMTP mail on > your > internal network only. > > To do this, you don't need the DECnet to SMTP mail gateway you mentioned. > If > this was configured on your machine, it may have been used to allow the > machine > running Multinet SMTP to accept mail from the internet and pass it on to > other > DECnet connected machines which did not run SMTP. > > I don't know what MULTINET:MR_CONFIGURE.COM is but "MR" suggests it might > be > something to do with ALL-IN-1 mail rather than VMS MAIL. If you want to > run > ALL-IN-1 mail, this is very different to using VMS MAIL. > > Everything you need to route SMTP mail to/from VMS MAIL on your machine > should > be provided by: > > $ MULTINET CONFIGURE /MAIL > > Regards, > Peter Coghlan. > Peter, I won't be leaving this box up perpetually for sure. I have a 4000-200 with a newer version of MULTINET and VMS that allows a person to send and receive mail with "normal" email addresses but even that one is only left running occasionally. I watch attempts every few minutes to probe it from the outside world, sheesh, bots. > MULTINET CONFIG /MAIL This is what I use to compare the mVax3100 and my 4000-200. I could not find anything other than the versions of the services to explain why one could not use simpler email addressing (b...@emaildomain.com). Basically, the 3100 with it's older multinet and VMS "works as designed" which for now is fine with me. I just wanted to be sure I did not need to perform a trick everyone but me knows about to streamline email, other than simply upgrade these services. Thanks again for your reply. Bill -- @ BillDeg: Web: vintagecomputer.net Twitter: @billdeg <https://twitter.com/billdeg> Youtube: @billdeg <https://www.youtube.com/user/billdeg> Unauthorized Bio <http://www.vintagecomputer.net/readme.cfm>
