SNADS: How to Remove the SNADS Gateway from a Postoffice (132408)

SUMMARY

Unlike other Microsoft Mail gateway products, the Microsoft Mail Gateway to SNADS does not have a remove gateway parameter on the install program (for example, install -r). Because SNADS routing is maintained in a similar format to Microsoft Mail routing, routes can be managed directly through the Administrator's program (ADMIN.EXE).

Therefore, to remove a SNADS Gateway definition, use ADMIN.EXE to select Gateways, SNADS, DGNs, Delete and to delete each DGN. After you delete the DGNs, delete the Gateway in ADMIN.EXE by selecting Gateways, SNADS, Gateways, Delete.

NOTE: Always delete the DGNs before deleting the gateway. If there are many DGNs and/or large DGNs, you will get a "insufficient memory" error from ADMIN.EXE when you try to delete the gateway.

Also, If there are downstream postoffices (POs) communicating with a SNADS user, remove the farthest downstream PO first, and work toward the Gateway PO. This will avoid "Hub Bit" errors generated when you try to delete a gateway from a forwarding PO.

MORE INFORMATION

If the DGNs contain several hundred DENs, you may delete DENs by running IMPORT.EXE. The syntax of Import is as follows:

Import -r -gsnads -f<filename>.

This will remove all addresses of type SNADS and replace it with the list in file -f<filename>. This import file will not remove DGNs as there needs to be at least one Add Entry for each DGN in this file. This will make the process of deleting DGNs go much faster as ADMIN.EXE reads all entries into memory before deleting them.

For more information about Import, refer to Appendix A in the Microsoft Mail "Administrator's Guide."