Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!barnett From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: MAC MS-MAIL to SMTP gateway? Message-ID: Date: 9 Oct 90 16:07:46 GMT References: <34162@cup.portal.com> <26FE4E59.1748@intercon.com> <546@fciva.FRANKLIN.COM> <2707782A.6C5@intercon.com> <14017@slice.ooc.uva.nl> <1990Oct5.072457.17013@news.arc.nasa.gov> <1990Oct5.211803.11653@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <289@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 26 In-reply-to: jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu's message of 6 Oct 90 02:14:09 GMT In article <289@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad) writes: > When Mail*Link was a new product, I beat StarNine over the head to at > least leave BinHex'd file enclosures alone. This is now a configurable option. If you send an enclosure that is text only, the gateway can either a) treat it as an enclosure or b) append it to the message comment. a) is better if you know it's going to a matching gateway on the other side. b) is better if you have heterogeneous mail systems. We have two gateways (and two appletalk networks) , and one uses A (this remote network is only sending mail to Mac users), and the other uses B - (because 75% of the people here do not have Macs). BINHEX files from A to B are received as enclosures. From B to A is received as text messages. The things we do so upper management doesn't get confused. :-) -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett