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From: jon@chiron.UUCP (Jon L. Griffeth)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: HELP!! with PROFS file formats and other stuff
Keywords: PROFS mail
Message-ID: <163@chiron.UUCP>
Date: 4 Oct 88 01:33:30 GMT
References: <162@chiron.UUCP>
Organization: Fairport, NY
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In article <162@chiron.UUCP>, jon@chiron.UUCP (Jon L. Griffeth) writes:
> 
> Some time ago I posted an article asking how I might establish a mail
> gateway between UNIX and IBM's PROFS.  I received several excellent
> responses.  However, due to internal politics I am unable to utilize
> any of them (silly, yes?).
> 

A number of people have asked for the responses to my original posting.
The following is a copy of the summary I posted to comp.mail.misc
and comp.unix.questions:

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Thanks for all the responses.  To summarize:

Apparently, IBM will be releasing an X.400 interface for PROFS in the near
future (I don't know what "near" means).  Since X.400 interfaces are available
for UNIX systems (or so I've been told) and X.400 is an international standard,
this probably makes the best solution.

It has also be mentioned that IBM has a TCP/IP package that supports a PROFS
to SMTP interface.  This certainly looks promising for the near term.

Finally, DEC's Mail Bus supports a PROFS gateway.  Unfortunately, it runs only
under VMS.  However, since it also supports a UNIX mail gateway, mail could
be routed through it.  Needless to say, this would only be useful if you had
a VMS system sitting around.

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One additional note, IBM only supports TCP/IP on their VM systems.  To
run the mail link you'll need PROFS Extended Mail as well as the TCP/IP
package.

P.S. This has nothing with the subject but I recently heard that IBM
has announced NFS support for VM.  Also, EDS is apparently providing
NFS for MVS as well.  Thought you might be interested.

P.S.S. I'm still looking for responses to my latest posting.

Thanks,

Jon L. Griffeth
jon@chiron.UUCP