From: jordan@ccs4vms.com

> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.vms/msg/e03d20ee60be5173

   I remember seeing this when it was fresh.  It seemed kind of clumsy
then, and since the addition of "Symbiont-Checks-Deliverability", I've
been fairly satisfied.  Until I found out that it doesn't work properly. 
(Some of us just don't get bothered about the state of the dikes until
the storm-surge arrives.)

   I've also lodged a whiny complaint in the ITRC forum, in case that
one has a higher-class readership than this one.  (It certainly stays
on-topic better.)  No one's offered a fresh .EXE yet, but hope endures.

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   Steven M. Schweda               (+1) 651-699-9818
   382 South Warwick Street        sms@antinode-org
   Saint Paul  MN  55105-2547

I talked to an HP call screener but thats it so far; the call went in
pretty late though so I wasn't expecting the callback today.  Maybe
tomorrow.

Believe me, the mta included with TCPIP services is chock full of
limitations and problems.  We're absolutely going to lose a couple of
customer email server spots to peecee based solutions that can handle
things like being the backup (store and forward) mail server for a
customer domain, and not have a problem separating identical usernames
coming in for two different domains without silly forwarding tricks.

Rich

OBTW, my planned implementation of the TEC procedure involved using a
EXECSYMB queue instead of the separate repeating batch job; as each job
landed in the queue, it would get searched, mangled, etc... I thought
it might even be able to handle the backup mail server role by
redirecting appropriate mail to the primary mail server directly
instead of via MX records.

I never got to the point of finding out if the receiver would deliver
mail to a queue running a different symbiont, but I think using the
generic queue it would work.

And yes its more work than having the symbiont check functionality
working 100% but then I've got other problems to work around at some
point so the effort may be worth it.  At least till a truly capable
mailer becomes part of the TCPIP package (heh!) or budget for PMDF
falls out of the sky.