jffowler@ICARUS.CNS.SYR.EDU ("John F. Fowler") (07/28/88)
We have been experimenting with an electronic mail product called EMC2 from Fisher which runs in the MVS/JES environment. Fisher claims to have a "BITNET" interface to the product, which we have installed. However, we have a couple of problems: it does not set the class and the filename/type of the output file correctly (EMCB OUTPUT), and it uses "username@node.BITNET" in the To: field, which causes some mailers to choke (notably jnet). The problem with the filetype of the routed output file being OUTPUT is the biggest ... most mail clients don't recognize it as mail. Is anyone else running EMC2 in the BITNET environment? How did you cope with these problems? Is Fisher simply doing false advertising? Their claim is that they have a BSMTP interface for their VM version of the product; however, I can't run that one (for reasons I'd prefer not to discuss ....). They do not plan to do it soon for MVS. Any assistance on dealing with getting mail out of MVS/JES environment is appreciated. John Fowler Syracuse University Computing and Network Services Internet: jffowler@icarus.cns.syr.edu Machinery Hall Bitnet: oprjff@suvm Syracuse, NY 13244-1260 USA AT&T: (315) 423-2861
jffowler@ICARUS.CNS.SYR.EDU ("John F. Fowler") (07/28/88)
I'll have to take back what I said about problems with jnet handling nodes suffixed with ".BITNET"; this can't be reproduced and thus I think it can be traced to the "experimenter". John Fowler Syracuse University Computing and Network Services Internet: jffowler@icarus.cns.syr.edu Machinery Hall Bitnet: oprjff@suvm Syracuse, NY 13244-1260 USA AT&T: (315) 423-2861