jffowler@ICARUS.CNS.SYR.EDU ("John F. Fowler") (05/12/88)
At Syracuse we have been experimenting with the possibility of having a production email system on the administrative system (which is a MVS/VTAM/CICS/TSO) which includes mail reachability throughout our campus (all other systems are TCP/IP). We have EMC2 from Fisher but have had problems getting the company to customize it with a BSMTP exit such that outgoing mail is handled via our VM MAILER (the systems are connected via CTCA). ADR eMAIL is a product that claims to provide exits to make such activities possible so we are looking at it. Has anyone implemented such a thing, for either of the above products or any other "production" mail system based in such an environment? 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 "The previous message is not intended to construe that I am an MVS user."
LDW@USCMVSA.BITNET (Leonard D Woren) (05/12/88)
I couldn't decide where to post this answer, so I'm cross-posting to match the original. Any further discussion should be only on one of these lists. IBM-NETS? I know little about the VM Mailer, so I don't fully understand your question, but if you are just talking about using your VM system (with FAL?) as a mail relay (gateway) to your TCP/IP based mail network, then you can easily do this with UCLA/Mail. It's a source distribution, so if it doesn't do what you want, you should be able to tweak it. It's cheap enough that I would suggest buying it just to try it out. For what you pay for one week of license fee for Emc2, you can get a permanent site license for UCLA/Mail! WARNING! As it says in the front of the doc, it requires an experienced systems programmer to install it. (After it's fully operational, it's a few minutes a week to maintain.) So you either pay a vendor for a product, or you pay a real systems programmer. I'd rather have the in-house talent.