MS Mail gateway to NGW dirsync fails to provide complete GAL (180296)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Mail for PC Networks 3.2
- Microsoft Mail for PC Networks 3.2a
- Microsoft Mail for PC Networks 3.5
This article was previously published under Q180296 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.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 6/24/2004 |
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| Keywords: | KB180296 |
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