BITNET_RELAY mc Macro

When configuring with the mc method, you can specify a host that will transfer mail between the Internet and BITNET. Mail to BITNET can then be sent by appending the pseudodomain .BITNET to an address. For example:

user@ucbicsi.BITNET

Here, ucbicsi is a BITNET host.

To allow your configuration file to handle this form of address, you need to declare the name of your BITNET relay using the BITNET_RELAY keyword:

define(`BITNET_RELAY', `relay_host')dnl

This statement causes the rule for BITNET to be included in your configuration file and causes relay_host to become the host to which BITNET mail is sent.

See Relays on page 602 for a description of how to include a delivery agent specification with relay_host. See also, bitdomain feature (FEATURE(bitdomain) on page 617) for a way to convert BITNET addresses to Internet addresses for hosts that have both.

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