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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>If you’re using an smtp gateway, take care to configure an exception for yourself. Specifically …<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>IF you have configured an smtp gateway with “smtp gateway <addr>”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>AND you have configured the mode to “first “ with “smtp gateway mode first”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>THEN you MUST HAVE at least one exception for yourself.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For example, if your JNOS address is configured with “ip address 1.2.3.4”, then you need “smtp gateway exception add 1.2.3.4 0xffffffff”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I was making some changes and I took out the exception I previously had for all 44.x (44.0.0.0 0xff000000). This caused a major problem for bulletin processing. When I received a bulletin, say to “today@ww”, rewrite properly rewrote it to the “today” area. But instead of being deposited there, it was sent to the smtp gateway. The gateway would bounce it because the recipient address “today@ww” is not a fully qualified smtp address. Usually, the source of the bulletin was not a valid smtp address either and so that bounced too. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This happened with locally generated messages, too. For example, from the JNOS console, I connected to an mbox session using the “bbs” command. From there, I used “sp sysop” to send a local message. Instead of landing in the sysop area, it was sent to the mail gateway, which bounced it back to me due to an incomplete address.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The solution was to add an exception for my own JNOS address.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Maiko: I don’t know if this was your intent. Maybe there is some utility that I don’t understand for sending even local processing to the gateway. I do see the potential for an endless loop. For example, suppose I had used a fully qualified address, like <a href="mailto:sysop@n6mef.ampr.org">sysop@n6mef.ampr.org</a>, instead of a local-only address. Instead of putting it in the user mailbox, I presume it would be sent to the gateway. Since it’s a fully qualified address, the gateway would then try to forward it back to n6mef.ampr.org, which would then send it to the gateway again. Lather, rinse, repeat. (I didn’t try this ‘cuz I didn’t want to crash the system.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Michael<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>N6MEF<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>