Mac Srv: User Lists Not Exchanged Between Mail 2.0 and 3.0 (71216)

SUMMARY

Note About Routing in Microsoft Mail: Each Mail server is initially set up to exchange messages and user lists with other Mail servers. Therefore, you can add Mail servers to a network without configuring the servers in any special way. However, by setting up your Mail system in discrete sites and by using the Mail Network Administrator application, you can specify which Mail sites will exchange messages and/or user lists. This system is called "routing." For more information on routing, see the "Microsoft Mail Network Manager's Guide."

Microsoft Mail version 3.00 and Microsoft Mail version 2.00 servers will not exchange user lists if the site name and/or password of the 3.00 servers have been changed. They will not exchange user lists even if there is a bridge connecting the site containing the 3.00 servers and the Local site that contains the 2.00 servers. The site information for Mail 2.00 servers cannot be changed and is always in the site named "Local".

For example:

1. In a Mail network with 2.00 and 3.00 servers, take a group of 3.00 servers and make them a different site by changing their site name. Name this site "Remote".
2. Set up a bridge between the above 3.00 servers in Remote, and a 3.00 server that is in the default site Local. Specify that they import and export user lists.

The 2.00 servers in the Local site will not exchange user lists with the 3.00 servers in the Remote site, even though there is a bridge between the Local and Remote sites. The 3.00 servers in the Local site will exchange user lists with the 3.00 servers in the Remote site.

User lists sent from 3.00 servers in the Local site contain routing information, allowing the user list to be forwarded to 3.00 servers in the Remote site. Mail version 2.00 servers do not send user lists containing this necessary routing information, causing the user lists to be ignored by 3.00 servers in the Remote site.