Re: Configuring ORACLE MAIL (Oracle Mail to Unix to MSMAIL)

The Katongkid (mveloo_at_netcom.com) wrote:
: Hi,
: We currently have Oracle 7.1 running on a HP9000. We also have a huge
: MS-Mail network that is connected to Unix Mail via a SMTP gateway. Now
: we have been given the task of connecting ORACLE MAIL to UNIX MAIL to
: MSMAIL. IN other words we want to be able to send Oracle Alerts to our
: MS-MAIL network.
: We have been reading the installation guide for Oracle Mail and find it
: confusing. It says it needs a UNIX MAIL gateway to be installed and
: configured for Oracle Mail first. What does this mean?
: We are using HP-UX ver 9.04. If anyone has any experience with this,
: please HELP!!! Either post to this group or email me back.. Thanx! I'll
: be most grateful!

In Oracle R10.x, you can do Oracle alerts w/o using Oracle*Mail/Office if you are doing only one-way alerts. If you want to do two-way alerts, you will need to set up a tiny Oracle*Mail db and configure it so that it will forward all may to the MSMAIL server through unix sendmail, which is what they mean by installing Oracle*Mail with an UNIX Mail gateway. It may be possible that Oracle*Office now has a MS-Mail gateway, in which case you can bypass the UNIX sendmail gateway installation.

If you are only doing one-way alerts, you can configure in the Oracle*Alert screens to use UNIX sendmail.

Johnny Chan
Indepedent Oracle Specialist Received on Fri Jun 23 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST