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Subj:	Telling PMDF some VMSmail has 822 headers

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From: Bob Tinkelman <tinkelman@ccavax.camb.com>
Subject: Telling PMDF some VMSmail has 822 headers
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I've been managing a ``poor man's gateway'' between VMSnet (DECUS UUCP) 
and PMDF.  It uses VMS-mail in each direction.  We have it set up so that
it's satisfactory. (i.e. We'll keep using it while waiting to find out that
someone's written a PMDF channel for DECUS UUCP, or writing one ourselves.)

From PMDF to UUCP we use a `mail_' channel like:

	mail_vngate daemon vngate logging queue pmdf_batch
	VNGATE:: ccavax.camb.com
	uucp-gateway

VNGATE is a logical that expands to UUCP%.

From UUCP to PDMF we use [INCOMING-FROM] rules in MAIL_REWRITE.RULES
(for each of the relevant hosts/domains) similar to 

	ora!*	in%"ora!\001"

One of the problems with the UUCP to PMDF direction is that  PMDF does not
realize that the body of the message has 822 header lines.  (UUCP, like
PMDF, had nothing better it could do with these when delivering to VMSmail.)
These header lines then remain as part of the body text.

Now PMDF has some `smarts' in recognizing mail from itself on the local
channel, to avoid doing this sort of thing.  One example is mail that
arrives from PMDF to a VMSmail account where the user has set forwarding to
in%something.

Is there a way to tell PMDF that mail received on the local channel from
UUCP%anything has 822 mail headers at the start of its text?  Is there 
another way to address this problem?
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