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Q244488: FDIRSYNC: GroupWise Gateway to MS Mail From Novell Won’t Dirsync

Article: Q244488
Product(s): Microsoft Mail For PC Networks
Version(s): MS-DOS:3.2
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 06-AUG-2002

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Mail Software Development Kit: FFAPI for Gateways and Applications, version 3.2 
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SYMPTOMS
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Novell's GroupWise Gateway for Microsoft Mail (MS Mail) imports GroupWise
addresses to the MS Mail gateway postoffice only. The user sees GroupWise
addresses on the postoffice that hosts the FFAPI gateway that is created by the
Novell GroupWise Gateway for MS Mail. These addresses do not appear on other
postoffices. GroupWise addresses are not inserted in the directory
synchronization (dirsync) stream for propagation to downstream postoffices.

CAUSE
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The Novell software does not use the -e switch when it imports the addresses to
the host postoffice.

This switch imports the addresses to the dirsync stream, and the addresses appear
in the global address list on all of the postoffices that participate in
dirsync.

WORKAROUND
==========

From the postoffice that hosts the FFAPI gateway, run the following command:

  import admin -p<password> -x<network>/<postoffice>
  -fgwise.txt

Where <password> is the password for the administrator, <network> is
the network name assigned to the GroupWise addresses, and <postoffice> is
the postoffice name assigned to the GroupWise addresses.

This produces a text file that contains the GroupWise addresses. You can import
them again with the -e switch to put them in the dirsync stream by running the
following command:

  import admin -p<password> -fgwise.txt -e

Additional query words:

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Technology        : kbAudDeveloper kbMailSearch kbSDKSearch
Version           : MS-DOS:3.2
Issue type        : kbprb

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