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From: rak@lancia.UUCP (RA Karhuse)
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Subject: UNIX (System V) and DEC VMS e-mail exchange...
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I'm looking for a way to exchange e-mail between a UNIX System V
machine and a DEC uVAX-II running VMS.  I'm interrested in both
public domain software and products that might be available.

I have/can get X.400 mailers on both systems, but the MTA (Mail
Transport Agent) appears to be a problem (i.e. UNIX has UUCP and DEC
has DECNet).

The UNIX host(s) is many miles away from the VMS host, so I can't 
use TWG TCP/IP as my MTA.   I've looked at getting a uVAX running
Ultrix to be a mail gateway, but it will cost >> $30K!  This seems
to be a little expensive for what I want to do.

I can easily get a dial-up connection between the 2 points at either
1200 or 2400 baud.  X.25 has been suggested as a possible candidate.
Has anybody gotten this to work?

				Mucho Thnkx! 
				Richard A. Karhuse
				rak@garage.att.com
				(201) 580-9039