On Thu, 02 Aug 90 10:39:02 CET you said:
>Maybe this group can give me some suggestions (beside of stopping the gateway
>or getting rid of X.400 --).
Ah well ... you've already thought of that ;-)
>
Eric has already answered on LSTSRV-L. I have a suggestion which should be
rather simple to implement:
The gateway software produces RFC822 headers for mailings to BITNET (this is
deduced from the headers I saw) and forwards those files to MAILER. LISTSERV
takes files with valid RFC822 headers and filetype MAIL and processes them as
MAIL - as long as the lines aren't longer than 255 characters. The lines are
split into 80 byte records. That's ugly but then at least it's mail. If the
lines are longer the "job" isn't processed but LISTSERV forwards the truncated
(mail)file to the postmaster but doesn't distribute it.
So it could work as follows:
+ "Mail" with lrecl <= 80: build RFC822 headers, send as mail via Mailer
+ In any other case still build RFC822 headers but send via RSCS in netdata
format. Give the file a filetype of MAIL. I assume the most MUAs are robust
enough not to die on it but in the worst case flag it as error.
Well, what do you think?
Christian