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Conference forty2::mailbus

Title:MAILBUS - Message Router and its Gateways
Notice:Kit Copy Utility - 100.1, Problems - 5.*, Kit Support - 103.1
Moderator:FORTY2::YUILLE
Created:Thu Jun 11 1992
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3209
Total number of notes:7125

3207.0. "MRMAN alias for INTERNET->MRgate etc transport" by PTOJJD::DANZAK (Pittsburgher �) Tue May 20 1997 15:48

    A customer has ALL-IN-1, MAILBUS, traditional DECnet and UCXV4.1
    
    We can set up the VMSmail to forward incoming internet mail to A1, but
    need to figure out how to set up the message router so they can
    address mail as:
        address@internet
    
    And have it go via MRGATE to the internet.
    
    I know, it's not clean, but can it be done?  how would
    one set up the alias in MRMAN etc.
    
    Thanks!
    j
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3207.1one thing works, how to automate it?PTOJJD::DANZAKPittsburgher �Thu May 22 1997 16:2327
    Well....
    
    So far I can:
    
      FORward users in VMSmail to:
    
           MRGATE::A1::all-in-fun-username
    
    And, in ALL-IN-fun I can address to the internet as:
    
     
    
    SMTP%"internet address"@mrgate
    
    Now, can I teach message router to take an internet address
    formed like:
    
        "internet address"@internet
    
    and have it act on the "@internet" qualifier to substitute the
    SMTP/MRGATE things above?
    
    Any takers for this?
    
    Thanks,
    j
3207.2not a good plan, IMHO26120::ogodhcp-124-40-168.ogo.dec.com::kennedynuncam non paratusTue May 27 1997 17:5018
I don't think that either MR or MRGATE has the address
rewriting capabilities you need to do this. It also 
adds additional message translation in pretty much the
worst place (both MR & SMTP support multiple bodyparts
in a message, but VMSmail really doesn't - so you're
likely to lose attachments in the process).

I think the recent releases of ALL-IN-1 may support
SMTP directly (or is this still in the future?), which
would be preferable.  The PMDF product from Innosoft
is widely used as a gateway between ALL-IN-1 and SMTP.
Both of these options would likely provide a much 
better service than using MRGATE.

You might want to also ask this question in the 
IOSG::ALL-IN-1 and/or LASSIE::UCX conferences.