Current version

The current release of Name Router is 4.1-8. Earlier versions of Name Router may not work correctly with PMDF 5.2. To obtain further details click here . To find out what version you currently have click here.

Supported OpenVMS & PMDF Versions.

OpenVMS: V6.2 through V7.3
PMDF: V5.2 through V6.1-1.

Name Router 4.1 Software Product Description.

Name Router is a mail routing utility, which allows users to receive mail using conceptual domain names, rather than machine node names. For example, a user called John Smith, in the sales department of Scrooge accountants in Ireland might have a mailbox called smithj@vax1.scrooge.ie. Name Router allows him to be addressed as j.smith@sales.scrooge.ie.

Name Router maintains a database specifying the mappings from the conceptual domain addresses to actual mailbox addresses, and will route incoming messages to the former to the latter. Name Router will also allow abbreviated fields within the conceptual name.

The full specification for a conceptual address is of the form forename.middle.surname@domain1[.domain2. ..]

All but the surname field can be omitted or abbreviated. If ambiguity arises from this, Name Router may be configured to do one of three things:

For example, if john.will.smith@sales.scrooge.ie is entered in the database, any of the following localparts will match this entry:

smith
j.smith
john.smith
john.w.smith
jo.smith

The following entries would NOT match:

joe.smith
john.k.smith

Any of the following domain parts would also match:

sales.scrooge.ie
scrooge.ie
ie

The following would not:

accounts.scrooge.ie
rival.ie

There must be a match in both localpart and domain for the mapping to take place. Name Router is not case sensitive on any of the fields.

Name Router 4.1 has the following features: