MS Mail gateway to NGW dirsync fails to provide complete GAL

• Microsoft Mail for PC Networks, versions 3.2, 3.2a, 3.5

SYMPTOMS

This gateway was written by Novell and is Beta code. The gateway will only perform a dirsync the first instance of each firstname from the GroupWise addresses. The Microsoft Mail addresses are transferred to GroupWise correctly.

CAUSE

This problem is because the field that Novell chose to use from GroupWIse as the source of the address to be dirsynced. This field contains the equivalent of the Display Name in Microsoft Mail. This field is then put into the Mailbox ID on Microsoft Mail, which is limited to ten characters with no spaces. The GroupWise field allows spaces. If the GroupWise field contains Firstname Lastname, only the first occurrence of each Firstname will be dirsynced to the Microsoft Mail FFAPI postoffice created to contain the GroupWise addresses.

This gateway uses OS/2 FFAPI on the Microsoft Mail side to extract messages from and put messages into Microsoft Mail. The GroupWise OS/2 API gateway is required on the GroupWise side to extract messages from and put messages into GroupWise. Message flow appeared to work correctly but was not extensively tested with attachments.

Additional query words: NGW GROUPWISE

Keywords : MailGWGtwy MailPCGen
Version : WINDOWS:3.2,3.2a,3.5
Platform : WINDOWS
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