Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!gmr.COM"!"RSVAX::RSVAX::MRGATE::\"A1::BERRY,JOHN\" From: "RSVAX::RSVAX::MRGATE::\"A1::BERRY,JOHN\"@gmr.COM" Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Exos Mail. Message-ID: <8807160715.AA24007@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 12 Jul 88 12:51:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 32 From: NAME: John Berry FUNC: Computing Systems TEL: (313)986-2467Does anyone out there have experience with using the 'EXOS mail system' to achieve VAX/VMS to UNIX (mostly SUN workstations) mail. Excelan tells us that we should be able to send mail in both directions using one of our VAXs (with their board attached) as a gateway between the TCP/IP network and our DECnet network. What we find is that mail outgoing from the SUNs up through the EXOS board will distribute successfully to any of our network VAXs. But, in order for a VAX user to send to a workstation, he must first log into the VAX node to which the EXOS board is physically attached. If a user on any other VAX node attempts to address a workstation (using VAXmail with EXOS% addressing), his process will hang (forever) when he does his final CONTROL-Z to exit and send the message. Excelan has looked at this problem, and offered no useful solutions. Nevertheless, they insist that they have such arrangments working at other sites. Does anyone out there have such a setup working, or encountered and successfully dealt with this problem? ********************************************************** Disclaimer - If I really knew what I was doing I would be doing something else, so nothing I say should be taken as anything but my opinion. **********************************************************