MHS: Connecting Microsoft Mail to cc:Mail

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Mail Gateway to MHS, version 3.0

Lotus cc:Mail includes MHSLink software that connects to the MHS host, which then sends the messages. Within cc:Mail, the users in MHS look like another cc:Mail Post Office. The MHS host is spawned by the cc:Mail Router, but this makes it difficult to do asynchronous connections from that host.

Version 3.0 of Microsoft Mail Gateway to MHS (MHS Gateway) must be defined from the cc:Mail gateway as indirect, through the host that runs the gateway. This is because the MHS host has to create messages for every recipient going from Microsoft Mail to cc:Mail.

Standard Message Format (SMF)

The cc:Mail Gateway to MHS is Standard Message Format (SMF) 64 compliant. This means messages can have only one recipient. If a message is sent from Microsoft Mail to cc:Mail through MHS, addressed to multiple recipients, the routing procedure in MHS splits the message up into the corresponding number of messages and submits them to the cc:Mail gateway

The MHS Gateway supports SMF 70 by default, but SMF 64 can be implemented by means of the -G64 option in the command line. The gateway setup area, under Routes to Workgroups, Hosts or Gateways has an area where the gateway version can be changed. This line appears only if you are installing the gateway on an MHS version 1.21 or 1.5 host.

If you are installing the gateway on an MHS version 1.21 host, use SMF 64. If you are installing the gateway on an MHS version 1.5 host, use SMF 70. Also use SMF 70 on a NetWare Global MHS server (this is under the SMF Gateways section).

Addressing

To add user names in cc:Mail as the administrator, add the remote postoffice as described in the cc:Mail documentation.

To add an individual user, enter the address

   POSTOFF {NETWORK/POSTOFFICE/MAILBOX}

To send mail to an unlisted user on a defined remote postoffice, first select the destination postoffice, and then type the full or concise extended address of the Microsoft Mail user:

   USER@GATEWAY