Conference 7.286::digital

5190.0. "Corp Email Architecture Issues" by SCASS1::KORNS () Mon Mar 17 1997 21:29

    I haven't a clue as to who to address this to so I'm placing
    it here hoping someone will forward it to correct person or
    comment back. I searched /TITLE=.dec.com and /TITLE=.digital.com
    and didn't find any hits so I'm assuming it's not been discussed
    here before. If there is a place to discuss this, let me know.
    
    As I bone up for my migration to Exchange, it has started me 
    wondering about a couple of things that seem 'less than ideal' 
    and I wonder about the reasons behind. As a technical person, 
    I don't always agree with the way things are, but if I understand 
    why, I can accept them. 
    
    Two things drive me up the wall with our current mail infrastructure
    and they both relate to our external interface, or the interface we 
    present to the external world (which ought to be very important BTW).
    
    	#1 -  We've just gone thru 3 or 4 years (how long has it been?) of
    	converting ourselves, our literature, our logos, our use of terms, 
    	and our URLs from DEC to DIGITAL. It would appear the migration to 
    	Exchange would have been a chance to move from the old to the new 
    	for mail addresses. Why am I [email protected] and not 
    	[email protected]? Now my business card (with an email 
    	address and a business URL) has both .dec.com and .digital.com to 
    	continue the confusion.
    
    	#2 - I'm still using Teamlinks right now, so Exchange may have 
    	fixed this, but I continually get asked by external partners, 
    	customers and associates if my email address has changed. They keep 
    	getting messages from me where the FROM: field in their email
        client has something new and weird. Even my computer illiterate 
        sister on AOL asks me about this. OKay, the secrets out, I've been 
        using email for personal use. My FROM field seems to vary (from 
        reports I've gotten back) all over the place. In one case, the 
        mail message had .VBO. in the string indicating it exited DIGITAL 
        in Valbonne France (I'm in Texas folks). Today it was: 
    	            [email protected]. 
    	The last time I asked about this, I was told out-going Internet
        mail gets spread amoung multiple outbound internet gateway points.
        I don't know if this is true or not. I just send mail to:
    		internetAddress@INTERNET
    
        Is this a feature we just have to live with or is there a fix? Has
        anyone else encountered this issue? Isn't it a little embarassing
        coming from the company that claims to be the first computer
        company on the Internet? Maybe I should go find and dust off my 
        X.400 mail address :-)
    
        [email protected]
    
       

Hey, everybody, this guy thinks our new corporate email has an architecture. 8-)

To splice this onto an Exchange thread, see note 4775.

To splice this onto a DEC vs DIGITAL thread, see note 4033.

To figure these out for yourself, do an AltaVista Notes search at 
http://altavista.notes.lkg.dec.com:8000/.

PJDM

    Dave :  It does seem a little tiresome to open up yet another
    corporate e-mail thread.  The dust has barely settled on the various
    discussions that .1 has pointed you to.
    
    Also, there are 200+ replies to note 2458 over on GYRO::INTERNET_TOOLS
    on the topic of [email protected] style addressing.   Have you forgotten 
    that it was yourself who opened that discussion?  I suggest that all
    further discussion on the topic should hook into the existing threads.
    
    /Chris/

    So, to the author of .-1....can you answer the question, or just say
    "see over there"?
    

    
    	The point is that it's ridiculous to type these things in over
    	and over again.
    
    	Even moreso when the answer is being given to the same person.
    

    For the Pitsburger ,
    
    The base noter's first question was ;
    
    >> If there is a place to discuss this, let me know.
    
    We let him know.  
    
    >>So, to the author of .-1....can you answer the question, or just say
    >>"see over there"?
    
    Both.  See over there for the details.
    
    /Chris/

    re. 2
    
    Not necessarily so.  I would not have any reason to access
    GYRO::INTERNET_TOOLS and would not have seen that string.  Only just
    having acquired an EXCHANGE account I would probably have been asking
    all the same questions myself in time.  Now I know someone else has
    had a problem and I also know where to look for answers.  
    
    This note is not really a waste of time at all.

    To: .1 thru .6 
    	Thanks everybody, I was just looking for the best place(s) to
    	discuss the topic and I got some good pointers.
    
    To: .2
    	Special thanks to pointing me to my base note from nearly
    	two years ago on almost the same thing. I must be losing my
    	mind with age. 
    
    Dave