As I understand it, you've got your Listserv set up on an NT system and
you want the outgoing mail to go through an OpenVMS Alpha system, right?
What mail software are you using on that system?  I use Innosoft's PMDF.
How is your SMTP_FORWARD and SMTP_FORWARD_1 defined?  They should be
pointing to the system where you want your mail to go through (the OpenVMS
Alpha).  You should also allow that system to act as a gateway for your
Listserv system.  Hope this helps.

C. David Young
Central Systems Support
University Of Texas At Arlington
Arlington TX 76019-0318
Voice: (817) 272-3666
Fax: (817) 272-5796

On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Catherine Buck Morgan wrote:

> We are trying to set up Listserv for our library. We've installed
> Listserv on an NT box. Our mail server is on an Alpha running OpenVMS
> 7.1 and Multinet 4.0c. I'm not sure how to get these two computers to
> talk to each other. I can't even define the problem... is it tcp/ip, or
> what. LSoft is telling us two different things... we need to register a
> unique host name for the NT server with our DNS server OR (and this is
> not good) take a look at this.
>
> "This sort of looks like a 'listserv' mailbox exists on the server.
> However,
> LISTSERV doesn't look in a mailbox for its incoming mail.  With
> sendmail,
> for instance, delivery to LISTSERV is accomplished by making a set of
> aliases as described in the installation guide that execute the lsv_amin
> mailer program to place .job files into LISTSERV's spool directory.  I
> don't
> know how this would be done with MultiNet, or if in fact it can be done
> with
> MultiNet.  If MultiNet can't execute external programs to deliver mail,
> it
> probably won't work with LISTSERV.  We don't know anything about
> MultiNet,
> so we will not be able to help with that.  The best thing to do would
> probably be to ask on the LSTSRV-L mailing list if anyone else has
> succeeded in making LISTSERV work with MultiNet as its incoming mail
> transfer agent."
>
> If anyone out there has Multinet, I'd appreciate some help!! Thanking
> you in advance...
> --
> Catherine Buck Morgan
> Automation Librarian
> South Carolina State Library
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