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Subject: Exos Mail.
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Date: 12 Jul 88 12:51:00 GMT
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From:	NAME: John Berry                    
	FUNC: Computing Systems       
	TEL: (313)986-2467        

Does 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?


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