On Thu, 27 Feb 1992 16:50:15 +0100 Eric Thomas said:
>You can't  use wildcards with SERVE,  but you can serve  the gateway off.
>Usually these non-compliant  gateways send mail directly  via NJE (they'd
>have a hard time convincing a mailer to take the junk they generate), and
>serving their NJE address off takes  care of everything from the gateway.
>You can use  wildcards in the TRAPIN configuration variable  to take care
>of things SERVE is not flexible  enough for, but that variable is limited
>to 255  bytes (like all configuration  variables - thanks IBM  for making
>GLOBALV win the Guinness award of misdesigned software).
 
It *appears* that SERVE user@* OFF does work.  SERVE *@node OFF, causes the '*'
to reference my issuing id, and SERVE *@* OFF seems to reference my id on all
nodes.  Problems develop, though, if this is not done with QUIET, because
LISTSERV actually uses the '*' in the To: header of its notification mail,
which MAILER will reject. This is LISTSERV 1.7b.
 
Brent Stilley,  Oklahoma State University, 113 Math Sciences, Stillwater, 74078