On Sun, 26 Feb 1995, Matthew J Brown wrote: > You don't *absolutely* have to output icky names like this to the world, > however; our outgoing gateway rewrites the addresses to > <initials>@sophos.com. All users here except me do their mail through > Notes. The only way to do this, however, is OS/2 Sendmail sendmail.cf > hackery. (yes, the Lotus Notes SMTP Gateway is a bag on the side of > OS/2 sendmail). It's an ancient version of sendmail, too; there isn't > even support for database macros to do this (more) cleanly. > > I personally find it worrying that the Notes smtp gateway won't run on > anything except OS/2 (whose TCP/IP implementation seems to be very flaky) > and absolutely requires OS/2's sendmail instead of having its own > SMTP thing (surely it can't have been too difficult to write their own?), > and even more so that OS/2 sendmail is based on an ancient UNIX version, > no doubt with all the known bugs. The damn thing falls over at least > once a day, too, takes an *age* to page back in every time it gets swapped, > and is basically a *lot* of trouble. > > -Matt > Can anyone cast a little more light on the potential problems with respect to the Lotus Notes (cc-MAIL) SMTP gateway. I need to make a rapid assessment of this package. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. > Erik ____ _____ _______ __ Erik Lindquist / _ | / ___/ / _____/ / / Systems Administrator / /_| | / /__ / / / / AECL Whiteshell Laboratories / __ | / ___/ / / / / VOICE: (204) 753-2311x3145 / / | | / /____ / /_____ / /_____ FAX: (204) 753-2455 /_/ |_| /______/ /_______/ /________/ E-mail: lindquie@wu1.wl.aecl.ca