Re: Network distributions without Office Vision

[Vern Hamberg <hambergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:29 PM 12/9/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Hello all...
>
>We have several AS/400's that are attached to the internet.
>
>SMTP has been enabled on them, mostly to support sending spoolfiles via
>e-mail. 
>
>Until recently, SMTP mail sent to a user on one of the AS/400's, was
>viewed, filed, edited and/or replied to via the Work with Mail option of
>Office Vision/400. The Office Vision/400 product made it easy for a user to
>look at and clean up their incoming mailbox.
>
>We have decided to move away from Office Vision in favor of other POP mail
>servers on UNIX platforms with PC clients (Eudora, netscape etc.). So as
>part of our most recent CISC to RISC upgrade, we will not be installing
>Office Vision/400 on the RISC system.


You probably didn't mean to say that OfficeVision is a POP server—it's not.
The POP server on the 400 can be accessed just fine by Eudora, Netscape, etc.


-snipe

>My question is:
>
>If a user is set up to receive mail from the internet, to their AS/400
>mailbox (not POP), how will I be able to view what is being received so it
>can be managed (most likely just deleted) without the use of Office
>Vision/400?


Are your 400s connected to the Internet directly or through a router? If
the latter, maybe put in some kind of packet filter that redirects SMTP to
your new mail server(s). Or this may be a function of a firewall or proxy
server.


>I did not want to have to touch each user profile if possible either. For
>example, I had not planned on setting up a POP mail environment if I didn't
>have to. 


Just a thought: POP configuration is done in the system directory, not user
profiles.

Cheers

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 371-1111 x480


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