Another suggestion dump the NT email server and get NT users to use
IMAP clients to a UNIX server running Exim and IMAP.
--Sean
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997 Bruno.Vuillemin@??? wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am the postmaster@??? and Exim has been our central mail gateway
> since the 28th nov.
> There are still some problems to be fixed ... but it runs.
> (I should configure it so that it has the same "security" as PP had)
>
> Hmmm it's probably a good idea to have a non-proportionnal font to
> read the rest of this mail ! I thought that schemes would be easier
> to understand than my English :-)
>
> Today's problem :
> -----------------
> Now I must find a solution to allow Exim to deliver mail to NT-Exchange.
> SMTP will be used.
>
> Simplified global view :
> ------------------------
> ^
> Rest of the Internet |
> |
> v
> ------------------[Exim]---------------------
> ^
> unifr.ch |
> +-----+-----+
> | |
> | |
> v v
> [VMS] [NT-exchange]
> (user mail box servers) (user mail box servers)
>
>
> 3 possibilities :
> -----------------
>
> a/ To do like for VMS :
>
> Bruno.Vuillemin@??? (FirstName.LastName@???,
> | official address , external)
> v
> [Exim]
> ^
> |
> vuillemib@??? (username@???)
> |
> v
> [NT-exchange]
>
>
> I know that's ok, but the NT-sysadm doesn't want that.
> He wants the users to have their own official addresses in their
> Microsoft MUAs.
>
> b/ What the NT-sysadm wants
>
> Bruno.Vuillemin@??? (FirstName.LastName@???,
> | official address)
> v
> [Exim]
> ^
> |
> new-> Bruno.Vuillemin@??? (FirstName.LastName@???,
> | official address)
> v
> [NT-exchange]
>
> Exim knows every defined address and rewrites them into the same...
> Now the question is ... Is that possible ?
>
> b1/ Can Exim forward mail this way ?
>
> b2/ Can Exim accept such mail and relay it ?
> This should be easier.
>
> c/ Compromise
>
> But neither the NT-sysadm neither I are enthousiastic.
>
> Bruno.Vuillemin@??? (FirstName.LastName@???,
> | official address)
> v
> [Exim]
> ^
> |
> new-> Bruno.Vuillemin@???
> |
> v
> [NT-exchange]
>
> Pros : NT users wouldn't see their real email address in their mailbox
> but something very close (for NT-sysadm)
> Should be routable by Exim (incoming and outcoming mail)
> (for my-self)
>
> Cons : NT users wouldn't see their official address in their mailbox.
> (for NT-sysadm)
> A special case of rewriting would have to be done for this
> computers (for my-self)
>
> ------------
> Thanks for your comments
>
> Bruno Vuillemin (as postmaster@???)
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