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From: liz@cgdra.ucar.edu (Liz Coolbaugh)
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Subject: Re: Exos Mail.
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Date: 27 Jul 88 17:25:57 GMT
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From To::BERRY,JOHN" Wed Jul 27 11:08:58 1988
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 88 11:08:58 MDT
To: ncar!gatech!mcnc!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!gmr.COM!RSVAX::RSVAX::MRGATE::"A1::BERRY,
	JOHN"
Subject: Re: Exos Mail.
In-Reply-To: Message from ""RSVAX::RSVAX::MRGATE::\"A1::BERRY,JOHN\"@gmr.COM"" of Jul 12, 88 at 12:51 pm


> Does anyone out there have experience with using the 'EXOS mail system' to 
> achieve VAX/VMS to UNIX (mostly SUN workstations) mail.
> 

Hope this helps:

We currently send mail from other VAX nodes through the one
VAX that has an Excelan board on it.  We do this using normal
DECnet routing, e.g., mailing to AAP1::EXOS%"liz@cgdra.ucar.edu"
would mail through our gateway (AAP1) out onto the Internet.

I did have a problem with this at one time, however.  I have
two machines in a cluster, AAP1 and AAP2.  I wanted my users
to be notified when mail came in on either machine, e.g. if
they were logged onto AAP2 and mail arrived on AAP1, they
would be notified.  I enabled this with the flag:

$ ASSIGN/EXEC/SYS 7 MAIL$SYSTEM_FLAGS

I then found that the routing listed above would not work!
To get rid of the problem, I removed the assignment from
our system startup files.  I'm not sure if this applies to
you, but I hope it helps!

Liz Coolbaugh
(303) 497 1327
liz@cgdra.ucar.edu
ncar!cgdra!liz