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From: robert@hslrswi.UUCP (J. Robert Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: VMS <=> Unix mail
Message-ID: <715@hslrswi.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 04:30:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: hslrswi.715
Posted: Fri Oct  9 04:30:03 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Oct-87 03:19:21 EDT
References: <503@esl.UUCP>
Reply-To: robert@hslrswi.UUCP (J. Robert Ward)
Organization: Hasler AG, CH-3000 Berne 14, Switzerland
Lines: 43
Keywords: Ultrix DECnet VMS mail
Summary: VMS <=> Unix mail using Ultrix/DECnet


In article <503@esl.UUCP> Michael McNamara writes:
>We have a number of unix machines, both system 5 and Ultrix.  We are going
>to convert one of our vaxes to VMS. We are interested in any VMS <=> unix
>mail interfaces.  The machines will all share an ethernet; the Ultrix machine
>runs decnet; hence a LAN based mail scheme would be nice. 
>However, as the machines are all in the same room, an RS-232 link would
>suffice.
>
> Michael Mc Namara                 
> ESL Incorporated                 
> ARPA: mac%esl@lll-lcc.ARPA    

We have got mail running between VMS and our Unix machines using a
MicroVax-II running Ultrix 1.2 as the mail gateway. Mail goes in both
directions and works reliably. On the VMS side, mail is sent to and
from the VMS-Mail sub-system, not All-In-One or anything like that.

To get this working, we bought the DECnet package for Ultrix (version
1.0) so that this machine speaks both DECnet and TCP/IP. The Ultrix/
DECnet package comes with a program called mail11 that may be used to
send mail to the VMS systems. This package is very easy to install and
get working but you need to make some (probably very slight)
modifications to your sendmail.cf file so that it understands when to
route mail through mail11. The Ultrix machine receives mail from the
VMS machines using a server program that answers DECnet requests from
the network. This Ultrix/DECnet package also allows you to login
to and from your Ultrix machine and to transfer files between Ultrix
and VMS.

Cheers,
	- R.


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