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Conference virke::mrmemo

Title:VAX MAILGATE for MEMO
Moderator:STKHLM::OLSSON
Created:Sat Feb 25 1989
Last Modified:Tue May 14 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:216
Total number of notes:933

207.0. "MEMO <--> MS-Mail Connection" by ZENA::ASTRUA () Mon Feb 06 1995 11:47

    Hi,
    	my customer has the problem to connect a MEMO (on IBM Mainframe) to
    MS-MAIL client.
    
    My idea is to use:
    
    MEMO <--> MRMEMO <--> MR <--> DECmailworks <--> MS-MAIL
    
    The question are:
                                    
    . Will the Delivery Notification be supported ?
    
    . Will the Receipt and Red Notification be supported ?
    
    . Is it possible to configure the MS-MAIL users like a second MEMO
      DOMAIN or is necessary to configure each client ? (Sorry for naif 
      question !)
    
    Thanks in advance and Ciao. Filippo
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207.1MRMEMO is not necessarily the right solutionSTKOFF::SPERSSONPas de problemeTue Feb 07 1995 13:4823
    
    Hi Filippo,
    
    Your configuration should work (notifications too), but there are a
    couple of considerations:
    
    - MRMEMO is rapidly reaching "end of life", and the support situation
    may be less than satisfactory for you and your customer.
    
    - MRMEMO still doesn't support binary documents, and you can safely
    assume that it never will.
    
    - same as above regarding large messages (effectively >~ 100Kb)
    
    If you want to install MRMEMO as a short-term solution while the
    customer is migrating from MEMO, and if the MEMO users *only* handle
    text messages (ie no MS-Word, Word-perfect or even RFT etc), then you
    could be on the right track. Otherwise I suggest you look into X.400
    connections (MRX <-> MEMO X.400 gwy).
    
    hope this helps,
    
    	Stefan
207.2MAILbus POSTAMASTER instead of MailworksZENA::ASTRUAWed Feb 08 1995 13:3012
    Thanks for your quickly answer.
    
    Another solution (using MRmemo) could be MAILbus POSTMASTER, because
    actually the customer is using a WNT server as MS-Mail POST OFFICE:
    
    MEMO <--> MRMEMO <--> MR <--> MAILbus POSTMASTER <--> NT PO <--> MS Mail
    
    Will in this case the Delivery or Read notifications be  supported  ?
    
    Thank you again and Ciao. Filippo.
207.3STKOFF::SPERSSONPas de problemeMon Feb 20 1995 11:0729
    
    Hi again,
    
    >    Will in this case the Delivery or Read notifications be  supported?
    
    It's difficult to give a definitive answer, since there are a lot of
    factors to consider;
    
    Notifications will be supported some way or other, but you may be in
    for a few surprises. As far as I know MS-mail issues notification
    messages that look quite ugly when they arrive at "the other side" (ie
    MEMO). If I remember correctly MS-mail issues text-messages (not
    structured notification messages) that basically says "message
    selected", and the rest is up to the original sender to guess (like
    what was the original message, and who received it). 
    
    Since I have never seen Mailbus Postmaster with MS-Mail, I could not
    comment on Postmaster's ability to map MS-Mail notification messages to
    Message Router Notification messages.  
    
    The mis-match between proprietary schemes of handling notification
    messages in in my humble opinion one of the strongest reasons for
    implementing X.400 P2 compliant messaging User Agents. That's why I
    think you should stick with your original idea (Mailworks, which
    provides P2 compliance for its clients)
    
    cheers,
    
    	Stefan