PMDF System Manager's Guide
PMDF-REF-6.0

When the addressing channel processes a message, it scans, from top to bottom, the body of the message for addressing information. Special commands are used to specify addressing information. The rules used for parsing a message are:

• The addressing information section begins when the first legal addressing command is encountered; any portion of the message body preceding the addressing information is discarded and not included in the subsequent message.
• Whitespace between addressing commands is ignored; (except see rule 3, below).
• At least one blank line must separate a FAX or printer address (block) from other addresses.
• The addressing portion of the message is terminated with a stop or end command or when something other than a legal addressing command is encountered; the portion of the message body following the addressing information is the only part of the message body to be mailed to the To: address list.

  The syntax of an addressing command is as follows:

  :command-name:value
  

  where command-name is the name of the command and value is the addressing information being specified with the command. A delimiter character other than a colon, :, may be chosen with the DELIMITER channel option. See Section 27.1.3.2 .

  Command names are case insensitive and may include punctuation or spaces or both. The default command names are

  • A From: address and Subject:, Comments:, and X-PS-Qualifiers: header lines may be specified with the From, Subject, Comments, PS Qualifiers commands. These commands are primarily intended for use with files routed to an addressing channel via a queue to e-mail symbiont (e.g., PostScript documents printed from a word processor for FAXing via PMDF-FAX).¹
  • Regular mail addresses are specified using any of the synonymous commands To, Cc, Bcc, e-mail, email, PMDF, RFC822.
  • Use the "delivery receipt" command to specify an address to which to send delivery receipts. Delivery receipts will be requested of all recipients following this command. Use the command "no delivery receipt" to suppress delivery receipts from subsequently specified recipients. Note that report* channel keywords can affect the interpretation of such delivery receipt requests.
  • FAX addresses are built up using the commands shown in Table 27-1 .

    Table 27-1 Addressing channel FAX commands

    Transmit after	AFTER
    Recipient's name	AT
    Authorization code	AUTH
    FAX gateway address	no equivalent AVPL item
    FAX telephone number	FN
    FAX modem's telephone number	FSI
    Recipient's organization	O
    Recipient's address	OU
    Initialization file	SETUP
    My FAX telephone number	SFN
    My telephone number	STN
    Recipient's telephone number	TN
    My organization	TTI

    In Table 27-1 , the command names are listed in the first (left) column and for each command, the portion of a PMDF-FAX address which it represents is shown in the second column. The addressing channel will automatically quote items of a FAX address which require quoting (e.g., the symbols /, $, and =). See Section 37.2.3 for further information on PMDF-FAX addressing conventions. In building up a FAX address, both a FAX telephone number and FAX gateway address (e.g., text-fax.acme.com) must be specified. If the DEFAULT_DOMAIN channel option has been used to establish a default domain for use with FAX or printer addresses, then the FAX gateway address may be omitted, in which case the default domain name will instead be used.

  • Printer addresses are built up using the commands shown in Table 27-2 .

    Table 27-2 Addressing channel printer commands

    Command name	Printer channel AVPL equivalent
    Recipient's name	AT
    Mail stop	MS
    Printer domain name	no equivalent AVPL item
    Recipient's organization	O
    Recipient's address	OU
    P1-- P8	P1--P8
    Initialization file	SETUP
    Recipient's telephone number	TN
    Username	USERNAME

    In Table 27-2 , the command names are listed in the first (left) column and for each command, the portion of a printer channel address which it represents is shown in the second column. The addressing channel will automatically quote items of a printer address which require quoting (e.g., the symbols /, $, and =). See Section 27.6.2 for further information on printer channel addressing conventions. In building up a printer address, the printer domain name (e.g., printer.acme.com) must be specified. If the DEFAULT_DOMAIN channel option has been used to establish a default domain for use with FAX or printer addresses, then the printer domain name may be omitted, in which case the default domain name will instead be used.

  • The addressing information may be terminated with a stop or end command, e.g.:

    :stop: 
    

    The use of either of these two commands is optional in most cases. Only when PostScript files are being routed to an addressing channel via a queue to e-mail symbiont is their use mandatory.

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  Note

  ¹ If you wish to disable the use of the From command, set up an option file which establishes all of the default commands except for the From command. See Section 27.1.3.2 .

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