How does WIG Work?

WIG expects that one machine in your workgroup be designated the Gateway machine. The Gateway machine must be connected to a modem. It is responsible for sending and receiving Internet mail for the entire workgroup.

Whenever a WIG user sends an Internet message, the message along with all the recipients and attachments is written to a JET engine database. The Gateway machine will periodically connect to the Internet in order to check for pending incoming messages for the workgroup.

When the Gateway machine connects, it will check the JET engine database for messages waiting to be sent. It will send those messages. Any messages coming down from the Internet will be written to the JET engine database.

Both Gateway and non-Gateway machines will periodically check the JET engine database for messages sent to them. These messages will be brought into MS Exchange and displayed as normal incoming messages into the In box.

Note: WIG must be installed as a service on each Windows 95 machine. At least one of the machines should have their WIG configured as a gateway machine. All other machines must be running WIG configured as a non-gateway machine.

WIG Workgroup configuration

WIG works with MS Mail in the following way:

• MS Mail users each load an extension DLL which realises when you have addressed a message to an Internet recipient and instead sends the message to an Internet mailbox/profile. WIG then reads all messages sent to the Internet mailbox/profile and adds the messages to the JET engine database and then sends them in the normal way.
• On receiving a mail message from the Internet destined for an MS Mail user, WIG realises that the recipient is an MS Mail user, repackages the mail message and forwards it directly to the MS Mail user via MAPI.

WIG Configuration for MS Mail connectivity

Index Setting up the gateway for Windows 95