PMDF User's Guide
OpenVMS Edition
PMDF-USR-VMS-6.0

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1.2 Sending messages with ALL-IN-1 and A1MAIL

If your site has installed PMDF-MR then you may send messages to PMDF.

If your site is using DEC Mailbus (Message Router), then messages to PMDF from ALL-IN-1 Electronic Messaging or any of the A1MAIL products should be sent to an address of the form 

user@host@mboxname
where user@host is the address of the recipient and mboxname specifies the Message Router mailbox name associated with PMDF, usually PMDF.9 The following example uses PMDF to reach the Internet address postmaster@acme.com: 
postmaster@acme.com@pmdf
If PMDF-MR resides on a remote Message Router node called, for instance, DELTA, one might reach the same Internet address by specifying 
postmaster@acme.com@pmdf@delta

If your site is using PMDF-MR to replace the Transport Service component of DEC Message Router,9 then messages to PMDF from ALL-IN-1 Electronic Messaging or any of the A1MAIL products can instead be sent using addresses of the form 

user@host
where user@host is the address of the recipient. The following example uses PMDF to reach the Internet address postmaster@acme.com: 
postmaster@acme.com

Note that the IN% prefix and quoting requirements for PMDF addresses within VMS MAIL do not apply when specifying PMDF addresses to ALL-IN-1 or A1MAIL.

If delivery receipt or read receipt notifications are desired, simply use the standard facilities of ALL-IN-1 or A1MAIL to specify such. Do not use the "(delivery-receipt)" construct described in Section 1.1.10 with ALL-IN-1 or A1MAIL. Similarly, message attachments are specified through the standard facilities of the ALL-IN-1 or A1MAIL user agents.

Note

9 Contact your system manager for specifics.

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