Article 12636 of vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet:
> > We are running Mul 3.4revA on vax/vms5.5-2. But, we are going to move
> > to a Sun box for our mail server. We have a lot of users on our old
> > system. Is there a way through multinet
> > a) set something up so that if someone sends a message to old
> > address, it will say like the address has changed.

> > For example, mukhopadhyay@medlib.hscbklyhn.edu has changed
> > to mukh0844@bmec.hscbklyn.edu. Or something similar?

> > We don't want to do set forward because we have to have two systems
> > running in tandem?

> MultiNet's SMTP subsystem does not provide this sort of functionality.  The
> public domain DELIVER package, however, could be used to provide this.  See (I
> believe) FTP.INNOSOFT.COM in the [.DELIVER] subdirectory.

Standalone DELIVER can be used for this, and as long as the VMS systems aren't
going to get upgraded this would be the approach I would recommend. However, if
you do intend to migrate the VMS systems to VMS 7.0 standalone DELIVER should
not be deployed at this time. Changes to VMS MAIL in VMS 7.0 have turned
standalone DELIVER into a huge security hole. There is no way to fix this short
of rewriting DELIVER as a protected image, something I for one am not willing
to do.

If VMS 7.0 is part of your future the only viable approach is to use something
like the integrated version of DELIVER in PMDF. (PMDF provides the necessary
protected environment in this case.) Note that there is also a Change Of
Address channel specifically for PMDF that eliminates the need for DELIVER
in any form.
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