CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Page

  Preface

  1      Overview of MRP

  1.1     What Does MRP Do?

  1.2     Who Can Use MRP?
    1.2.1      Digital Users
    1.2.2      IBM Users
    1.2.3      Users of Other Mail Networks

  1.3     Overview of MRP Planning and Management Tasks
    1.3.1      Deciding Registration Requirements
    1.3.2      Deciding Routing and Addressing Information
    1.3.3      Deciding the Types of Mail to be Exchanged
    1.3.4      Deciding How MRP Transfers Multi-Bodypart Messages to IBM
    1.3.5      Installing and Configuring MRP
    1.3.6      Adding Information to the REMLOC File
    1.3.7      Maintaining the Directory Service and the Nodelist File
    1.3.8      Managing MRP
    1.3.9      Passing Information to Your Users

  2      The Digital Mail Network

  2.1     Introduction

  2.2     Components of the Digital Mail Network

  2.3     Message Router

  2.4     Message Components

  2.5     Message Content Types

  3      The IBM Network

  3.1     Introduction

  3.2     IBM OV/VM Mail
    3.2.1      IBM OV/VM Notes
    3.2.2      IBM OV/VM Documents

  3.3     Mail Content Types

  4      The Combined Digital and IBM Network

  4.1     Introduction

  4.2     Sending Mail Between the Digital and IBM Networks
    4.2.1      Sending Mail from Digital to IBM OV/VM
    4.2.2      Sending Mail from IBM OV/VM to Digital

  4.3     Mail Conversions
    4.3.1      Conversions from Digital
    4.3.2      Conversions from IBM
    4.3.3      How MRP Handles Multi-Bodypart Messages from Message Router

  4.4     Mail Priority Conversions

  5      Planning

  5.1     Introduction

  5.2     Planning Tasks
    5.2.1      Deciding on Registration Requirements
    5.2.2      Allocating an IBM Node ID and Node Password to the MRP Node
    5.2.3      Allocating IBM OV/VM Usernames to Digital Users
    5.2.4      Allocating IBM Location Codes in the Digital Network
    5.2.5      Allocating IBM Distribution Manager IDs in the Digital Network
    5.2.6      Deciding How MRP Transfers Multi-Bodypart Messages to IBM
    5.2.7      Deciding Whether to Perform a Directory Service Lookup of Recipients of IBM OV/VM Notes

  5.3     Planning Checklist for the Digital Manager

  5.4     Planning Checklist for the IBM Manager

  A   MRP Restrictions

  A.1     Introduction

  A.2     Subject Field Length

  A.3     IBM OV/VM Note Length

  A.4     Use of the SENDFILE Command by IBM CMS Users

  A.5     Technical Character Set Restrictions

  A.6     Characters in User Names

  A.7     Service Messages Received for Multi-Bodypart Messages

  B   An Example MRP Network

  B.1     Introduction

  B.2     Hardware Configuration

  B.3     RSCS Link and Route Definitions

  B.4     IBM Identifiers for the Digital Nodes
    B.4.1      The REMLOC File
    B.4.2      The Nodelist File

  B.5     The DECnet SNA Gateway Access Name

  B.6     MRP Configuration

  B.7     Directory Service Entries

  B.8     Addressing

  Glossary

  FIGURES

  2-1        The DECnet SNA Gateway Network

  2-2        A Typical Digital Mail Network

  3-1        Sending Documents in the IBM Network

  4-1        The Combined Digital and IBM OV/VM Network

  A-1        Character Set Conversions from Digital to IBM

  A-2        Character Set Conversions from IBM to Digital

  B-1        The MRP Network Hardware Configuration

  B-2        The MRP Network as it Appears to IBM

  B-3        The MRP Network as it Appears to Message Router

  TABLES

  4-1        Message Conversions:  Digital to IBM OV/VM

  4-2        Message Conversions:  IBM OV/VM to Digital

  4-3        How MRP Splits Multi-Bodypart Messages

  B-1        RSCS Link Definitions

  B-2        Identifiers for Digital Nodes