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- From: kvc@summer.innosoft.com (Kevin V. Carosso)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
- Subject: RE: WP Office to Internet via X400/PMDF
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- Date: 29 Jul 92 07:40:01 GMT
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- > We would like to send mail from WordPerfect Office using the X400 connection
- > to and from Internet using PMDF directly. IS THERE A WAY TO DO THIS?
-
- If you have PMDF-MR as your PMDF to Message Router gateway, and DEC's MRX
- for your Message Router to X.400, you can certainly get mail between the
- Internet and X.400. The problem you will run into is DEC's requirement that
- every MRX user be registered in the DDS. This is, of course, ridiculuous when
- anyone on the Internet is a potential user of your gateway. There is currently
- no great solution to the DDS registration requirement, but we are working on
- several options.
-
- We've announced our intent to provide a more direct PMDF-X400 solution. That
- may also provide enhanced support for MRX that bypasses the registration
- requirement (we know how to do it, no promises yet). We are not currently
- shipping a direct PMDF to X.400 gateway. Until we do there are things you
- can do with the addressing channel that might allow you to embed addresses
- inside a message and have the envelope To: always be a special static address
- (that of the addressing channel, of course) that you register. A hack, but
- it can and is done.
-
- Let me repeat that it isn't our fault. DEC's MRX is the one with the stupid
- requirement that everyone be registered. We understand why they require it
- (because their own gateways and user agents are not capable using all of
- Message Router's addressing capabilities) but we don't like the fact that
- they hamstring good, full-function Message Router gateways like ours simply
- because some of their designers didn't do their homework.
-
- As long as your follow the requirement to register, then PMDF-MR provides
- an X.400 to Internet gateway right now.
-
- You might also look at something other than X.400 and MRX. Most PC LAN Mail
- systems provide SMTP gateways. That would be the most straightforward
- and easiest solution. Since you have PMDF and PMDF-MR, you can go SMTP
- straight into your A1 environment just like any other SMTP mail does now.
-
- PMDF V4.1 provides support for cc:MAIL now, and we plan to provide MHS
- support shortly. Either of those are popular in the PC world and a
- gateway between WordPerfect and one of those might be available.
-
- Finally, you could put WordPerfect Office mail on VMS. We have sites going
- from that to/from PMDF all on VMS. Once into PMDF, of course, you can get
- it through PMDF-MR and into A1.
-
- /Kevin Carosso
- Innosoft
-