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From: barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P. Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: DECnet <-> Unix mail exchange?
Keywords: decnet unix mail
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.210347.26417@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA>
Date: 10 Jan 91 21:03:47 GMT
References: <1991Jan9.113517.4544@sixcom.sixcom.it>
Organization: Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa
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In article <1991Jan9.113517.4544@sixcom.sixcom.it>,
paolo@sixcom.it (Paolo Crini) writes:
> Does anyone have suggestions on how to interchange mail between a
> generic Unix system and DECnet?
>
> I seek a solution requiring the least effort at the DECnet side, since
> I'm not an expert in DECnet or VMS systems at all.  Is it possible to
> connect the systems via a serial interface (using uucp or whatever)?

We run the PMDF mailer on a VMS system here, and use the Phonenet
protocol to transfer mail between that and a Unix system.  It works very
well.

Phonenet support is built into PMDF.  MMDF or a small package called
cmdf (from comp.sources.unix, I think) can provide the Unix end of the
link; I use a locally modified version of cmdf (one day I hope to get
around to mailing all the bug fixes to the original authors).

PMDF is not free.  Write to Innosoft International Inc.
<iii@ymir.calremont.edu> for details.

--apb
Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa
Internet: barrett@ee.und.ac.za (or %ee.und.ac.za@saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu)
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