SUMMARY: Connecting Novell and Sun Mail

From: Thang Victor Dinh (tdinh@mail.irvine-sensors.com)
Date: Mon Mar 25 1996 - 11:44:01 CST


Thank you for responses:

Daniel.Blander@ACSacs.com
Milt Webb <milt@iqsc.com>
Frank Dzaak <dzaak@fm.bs.dlr.de>
Justin Young <justiny@cluster.engr.subr.edu>
Bert Shure <Bert_Shure%SOLSOURCE@notes.worldcom.com>
Vibhavasu Vuppala <vuppala@cps.msu.edu>

ORIGINAL POST:

> Here I have two isolated network mail... Sun mail and Netware 4.1 mail.
> My question is what is the right way of connecting the two ? I'm
thinking
> of NFS mount the Netware mail spool so that Sun can see it. I am not
> familiar with Netware,so if this more work on the Netware part ...
please
> be details. Thank you
>

RESPONSES:

Daniel.Blander@ACSacs.com

Netware mail is based upon a service called MHS (Novell proprietary).
The only connection possibility you have is to utilize an SMTP type
connection from PC's (or POP-3) to the Sun, or to have a MHS type
connection from the Sun. If you are looking to simply route mail
between the two, you can put in an SMTP Gateway for MHS (probably
around $3000 for software :-(

If you are looking for all systems to share mail, I would put in
an SMTP or POP-3 friendly mail software service (Eudora, Netscape)
GroupWise all share this common problem - cost to gateway to SMTP
which is the Internet mail protocol (and UNIX)....

Milt Webb <milt@iqsc.com>

We use an MHS to SMPT gateway. Not sure the Sun will be able to use that
Netware spool directory...formats are different.

We use a product by Connect2 Software.

Frank Dzaak <dzaak@fm.bs.dlr.de>

we have also a Novell Network and a Sparc cluster. We are using
Mercury, which is a SMTP-Gateway for Novell. Mercury runs as a NLM on
the Netware-Server and sends mail to the suns and vice verca.

Justin Young <justiny@cluster.engr.subr.edu>

Don't even think of mounting the mail. Get Mercury,Pegasus and transfer
the mail to your users that way.

Bert Shure <Bert_Shure%SOLSOURCE@notes.worldcom.com>

i think you'll need some kind of a SMTP gateway for the novell mail to
talk to
unix mail.

i might be able to sell it to you.

Vibhavasu Vuppala <vuppala@cps.msu.edu>

Here we have a smtp gateway on the novell side, and it allows us to
communicate between unix mail and groupwise. i am not sure if the product
is from novell or wordperfect. Check with novell. there should be lots of such
products from third party vendors too.

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