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AltaVista Mail Gateway for cc:Mail - README.TXT
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This file contains important information about the gateway
software. Please read it carefully before installing the
gateway. 


System Requirements
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Any Intel(R) or Alpha(TM) processor running Microsoft(R)
Windows NT(TM) Server or Workstation V3.51 or later, and
AltaVista(TM) Mail V1.0 or later. 

The system should have a minimum of 16 Mbytes of RAM and a
hard disk with 3 Mbytes of free space. Additional space is
required for message and log storage. 


Restrictions
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The gateway operates with Lotus(R) cc:Mail(R) Version 2.2
or later, including Release 6 and Release 6.1. 

On the computer that will run the gateway, you cannot also
run the cc:Mail client, administration program, or any other
program that uses the cc:Mail post office. This is because
the gateway, running under its own account, needs its own
connection, and Microsoft's networking system does not
permit concurrent connections from multiple accounts. 

The cc:Mail system can support only a limited number of
attachments per message. Incoming multipart MIME messages
will have only their first seventeen bodyparts translated,
and any remaining bodyparts will be replaced by a warning
that message data has been lost. 

The cc:Mail system can support only a limited number of
recipients per message. Incoming SMTP messages display only
as many recipients as will fit in the space available, and
if any have been discarded a bodypart is inserted to warn
that the full list is visible only in the headers bodypart
at the end of the message. The cc:Mail
reply-to-all-recipients function can reply to only those
recipients that are displayed. 

The gateway maps MIME types to and from their corresponding
file extensions. MIME types (and file extensions) are
indefinitely extensible, so the gateway supports only those
mappings known at the time the gateway was released. If you
need to add support for a new mapping, edit the file called
mimetype.dat in the gateway's directory. If you re-install
the gateway, this file will be overwritten, so save a copy
of the changes you've made elsewhere. 

cc:Mail receipts are not supported.

Apple(R) BinHex, AppleSingle and AppleDouble encodings are
not supported. 

cc:Mail Release 6 includes an option to specify a code
page other than the default when creating the cc:Mail Post
Office. The AltaVista Mail Gateway for cc:Mail supports 
code pages 437, 850, 852, 860, 863 and 865. If you set the
code page used by the cc:Mail Post Office to a value not
supported by the gateway, the gateway will not be able to 
accurately represent the message text in the Internet
mail environment.
 

Support
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How to obtain support depends on who you bought the product
from. Contact the company you obtained AltaVista Mail from,
and they will advise you how to obtain technical support.


Further Information
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For more information on AltaVista products, see the
AltaVista web site: 

http://altavista.software.digital.com


Copyright Information
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Digital Equipment Corporation makes no representations that
the use of its products in the manner described in this
publication will not infringe on existing or future patent
rights, nor do the descriptions contained in this
publication imply the granting of licenses to make, use, or
sell equipment or software in accordance with the
description. 

Copyright Digital Equipment Corporation, 1996. All rights
reserved 

Apple is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc 

Lotus is a registered trademark of Lotus Development
Corporation 

cc:Mail is a registered trademark of cc:Mail, Inc 

Intel is a registered trademark of Intel corporation 

Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation 

Windows NT is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation 

Digital, Alpha and AltaVista are trademarks of Digital
Equipment Corporation 

