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From: pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron)
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Subject: Re: VAX-DECNET Mail Interface to 4.2BSD Mail
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Date: Tue, 9-Jun-87 12:16:24 EDT
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In article <1292@m-net.UUCP> cwruecmp!seismo!umix!m-net!scs (Steve C. Simmons) writes:
>I'm looking for some software which must certianly exist (since
>I can netmail to my friends at DEC) and which I'm hoping is PD
>and available thru the net.  It concerns a mail gateway between
>decnet/vaxmail and UCB 4.2 Unix mail.  Here's our present layout:
>
>We are a large SUN Microsystems site with a number of VAXen of
>various vintages.  We're using SunOS 3.2, and VMS 4.5.  We have
>a strong need to be able to email between the two worlds with
>some degree of reliability.  [...]

A public domain implementation of DECNET you're not going to find, since
DECNET is a proprietary protocol.  As I recall, DEC did license some
people who wanted to do a Unix DECNET for the Sun, so that should be
available (sorry, I don't know who the vendor is), but it almost certainly
costs big bucks.

Possibly a better way to go is to get PMDF, which is the mail transport
software used by CSNET/PhoneNet sites.  That's available for a nominal
distribution fee (about $50 last time I checked), and runs on both VMS
and Unix.

--Pat.