Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nih-csl!lhc!ncifcrf!haven!uflorida!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!pyro!bell From: bell@pyro.ei.dupont.com (Mike Bell) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: MAC MS-MAIL to SMTP gateway? Message-ID: <1990Oct10.121405.15551@pyro.ei.dupont.com> Date: 10 Oct 90 12:14:05 GMT References: <1990Oct5.211803.11653@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <289@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Organization: DuPont Electronic Imaging Lines: 63 In article barnett@crdgw1.ge.com writes: >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 The only gripe that I have with this product is that is doesn't handle MX records correctly. I was told that the fault lies in MacTCP, but whoever is to blame, it certainly makes the product less useful.... Mike Bell -- ******************************************************************************** Mike Bell Internet: mike_bell@zip.ei.dupont.com Senior Engineer CSNet: BELLMA%ERVX01@dupont.com DuPont Electronic Imaging Applelink: D2747 Core Technology Group MacBLITZ..... When you feel the need for speed.......... ******************************************************************************** --