Re: OK, one more question about sending email TO an old VAX

2016-02-25 Thread william degnan
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 02/24/2016 10:48 PM, Richard Loken wrote: > >> the gods have decreed that we will be on Office365 >> by the end of March >> > They moved us to this at work last year, it is so awful I can't believe it! > The web portal takes minutes to brin

Re: OK, one more question about sending email TO an old VAX

2016-02-25 Thread Jon Elson
On 02/24/2016 10:48 PM, Richard Loken wrote: the gods have decreed that we will be on Office365 by the end of March They moved us to this at work last year, it is so awful I can't believe it! The web portal takes minutes to bring up a page, and the interface is so ghastly, I could not learn ho

Re: OK, one more question about sending email TO an old VAX

2016-02-25 Thread william degnan
P. Coghlan logged into my server and found the problem was due to a logical assigned to SYSTEM. If I had created a new user, inbound mail to the other user would have worked fine, the issue was with sending mail to the SYSTEM user specifically. That's why nothing wrong was found with multinet mai

Re: OK, one more question about sending email TO an old VAX

2016-02-24 Thread Richard Loken
On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: My brain is cooked. I left AU in the fall of 1991, no? At that time I was pretty sure the 8650 was still in play. I'm sure I would have remembered the Digital Road Crew showing up with a semi-trailer full of new hardware. You have forgotten at

Re: OK, one more question about sending email TO an old VAX

2016-02-24 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Feb 24, 2016, at 8:48 PM, Richard Loken wrote: > >AU purchased an 8600 some time around 1985? >The 8600 was upgraded in place to an 8650 >The 8650 was traded in on an 8820 for $1.2 million >Some time in the very late 80s a VAX 4000-300 was purchased >Circa 1990 the 8820

Re: OK, one more question about sending email TO an old VAX

2016-02-24 Thread Richard Loken
On Tue, 23 Feb 2016, william degnan wrote: How does one send mail INBOUND to this kind of VAX mail from a modern email like gmail? Is it possible to format the header somehow to get the message through? You can't simply send a message to Perhaps VMS cannot reach your mailbox? In another mes

Re: OK, one more question about sending email TO an old VAX

2016-02-24 Thread Richard Loken
On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: Good grief, Charlie Brown! AllIn1 had it's own Bitnet-style routing syntax on VMS? I am so glad I never knew that. I don't remember the details of all-in-one at all. It is possible that all-in-one just used the standard VMS mailbox but I do not r

Re: OK, one more question about sending email TO an old VAX

2016-02-24 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Feb 24, 2016, at 5:11 PM, Richard Loken wrote: > > Multinet has an SMTP listener and it expects standard SMTP addresses. > If you cannot deliver such an address locally then you must look at how > you have configured the Multinet email server, if you want to forward > to a decnet only machi

Re: OK, one more question about sending email TO an old VAX

2016-02-24 Thread Richard Loken
On Tue, 23 Feb 2016, william degnan wrote: Assuming I want to send an email message to an older VAX server (Process Software MultiNet V4.1 Rev A, MicroVAX 3100, VAX/VMS V5.5-2 ) that requires one to format their OUTBOUND emails like this: To: SMTP%"b...@myemail.net" How does one send mail INBO

Re: OK, one more question about sending email TO an old VAX

2016-02-24 Thread william degnan
I am confident DNS is set up correctly. I have another vax server sitting next to the microvax3100 that is using a diff. subdomain on vintagecomputer.net and this vax sends and receives mail without issue. The only diff between the 3100 and the other vax server is the other is running a newer ver

Re: OK, one more question about sending email TO an old VAX

2016-02-24 Thread Peter Coghlan
> > How does one send mail INBOUND to this kind of VAX mail from a modern email > > like gmail? Is it possible to format the header somehow to get the message > > through? You can't simply send a message to > > > > sys...@microvax3100.vintagecomputer.net > > > > how would I format the email ad

Re: OK, one more question about sending email TO an old VAX

2016-02-24 Thread Guy Dawson
A quick surf and I see that MultiNet is a TCP/IP and associated utilities stack for VAX/VMS. So, I assume your VAX has TCP/IP connectivity to a bigger network ( vintagecomputer.net) and you can ping to and from the VAX. Is an SMTP server running on the VAX? If so, from the bigger network can you

Re: OK, one more question about sending email TO an old VAX

2016-02-24 Thread Peter Coghlan
> > Assuming I want to send an email message to an older VAX server (Process > Software MultiNet V4.1 Rev A, MicroVAX 3100, VAX/VMS V5.5-2 ) that requires > one to format their OUTBOUND emails like this: > > To: SMTP%"b...@myemail.net" > > How does one send mail INBOUND to this kind of VAX mail fro

Re: OK, one more question about sending email TO an old VAX

2016-02-24 Thread Paul Koning
> On Feb 23, 2016, at 1:46 PM, william degnan wrote: > > Assuming I want to send an email message to an older VAX server (Process > Software MultiNet V4.1 Rev A, MicroVAX 3100, VAX/VMS V5.5-2 ) that requires > one to format their OUTBOUND emails like this: > > To: SMTP%"b...@myemail.net" > > H