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by Bill Degnan - 02/24/2016 12:32 |
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Peter Coghlan from CCTECH and I think Ireland logged into my system and found the solution to the email problem, he writes:
"I found the problem. You can do all sorts of nifty stuff with logical names on VMS. Somebody (presumably at the municipality) had set up a logical name for SYSTEM. As far as VMS MAIL is concerned, this is like setting up a forward for SYSTEM to another user, except the logical name definition did not correspond to a valid username. Whoever did this likely intended to create a short way of referring to files in a particular directory and not trying to do anything with MAIL. To temporarily get rid of the logical name I did: $ DEASSIGN /SYSTEM /EXEC SYSTEM Then I managed to successfully send a local test message, then another from here over the internet." I need to learn more about logical names then! Did not know that you could do that. Reply |
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