PMDF System Manager's Guide

The first step in installing a NOTES channel is to insert the channel entry in PMDF's configuration file. The entry should appear as:

notes_local single decnotes.domain.name

decnotes.domain.name should be a valid domain name that is reserved for use by the NOTES channel. One possible choice is to prepend the official local host name with "decnotes.". For example, in domain example.com, a reasonable domain name for the NOTES channel might be decnotes.example.com and the channel entry would then appear as

notes_local decnotes.example.com

Some additional rewrite rules are also needed. Continuing the decnotes.example.com example, the appropriate rules would be:

decnotes $U@decnotes.example.com decnotes.example.com $U@decnotes.example.com

At this point the installation of the NOTES channel is basically complete. Any message sent to CONFERENCE@decnotes.example.com would be inserted into the conference named CONFERENCE. You can either subscribe addresses of this form to the mailing lists you want to read as notes files or you can set up aliases in the PMDF alias file and subscribe the aliases instead:

info-vax: info-vax@decnotes.example.com info-pmdf: info-pmdf@decnotes.example.com