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Subject: IBM DISOSS <---> UNIX  - Message status problem
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Date: 01 Oct 1992 09:57:03 -0400 (EDT)
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From :

John  Reddington
Hoffmann La Roche
Basel,  Switzerland

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	Problem with messages from IBM SNADS (DISOSS) to UNIX
	-----------------------------------------------------


Does anybody have the same problem I've got with messages from IBM DISOSS
going over Message Router via PMDF to Unix users?  And more importantly
does anyone have a solution?


To summarize our E-Mail system,  we have several DEC machines with ALLIN1
and A1MAIL all linked together on the Message Router (V3.2) backbone.  On
one dedicated machine we have all our gateways,  MR/S (V1.2) to IBM DISOSS,
MR/X to X400 and then PMDF 4.1 and PMDF-MR 4.1 to link to our UNIX users
and to the Internet.

Everything seems to work fine though one little problem remains with mail
exchange between IBM DISOSS and UNIX.  With some help from from Kevin Carosso
at Innosoft,  new re-write rules were implemented to allow full mail
exchange between these above two systems.

However,  when a message from IBM DISOSS is sent out,  there is a status
code for this message set up. If accepted by the network,  this code is set
to ACCEPTED.  When it is delivered to the intended mailbox,  the code is
changed to COMPLETE.  IBM users can have in their set up that when this
code appears,  the whole status of the message disappears.  In that way the
only status codes shown are for undelivered messages.

This is where we are stuck at the moment.  Messages from IBM DISOSS are
delivered to our UNIX users but the status of the message on DISOSS does
not go to COMPLETE.  We can get a message delivery report back to the
DISOSS sender, though this report comes from MAILER-DAEMON.  This only works
if we make a DDS entry for MAILER-DAEMON - a network of UNIX systems would
therefore require a DDS entry for the MAILER-DAEMON on each machine.


What we would like is either one of the following two solutions to the
problem :-

1.  that when the message arrives at the intended recipient,  the IBM
    sender has the status for that message changed to 'completed'.

2.  that when the message arrives at PMDF or even PMDF-MR,  the status of
    the message on the IBM side goes to 'complete'.  Then if the message fails
    to get through,  a non-delivery message will be sent.

Anybody got any ideas on this?  Anybody got the same problem?


From :

John  Reddington
Hoffmann La Roche
Basel,  Switzerland

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