Lotus Notes Gateway Easy to install Bi-directional message format conversion Delivery reports, Non Delivery reports and Receipt reports Full support for text and binary attachments Built-in and table-based address mapping Directory synchronisation Activity logging The Route400 Lotus Notes Gateway is an easy to install and maintain "connector" which provides seamless integration between a proprietary Lotus Notes network and global X.400 messaging systems, allowing Notes users to send and receive messages in a manner consistent with their normal way of working. The gateway relays messages and conveniently translates addresses between the Lotus Notes messaging environment and a Route400 Message Server (MTA) associated with the gateway. This MTA may be configured as a stand-alone system, providing access to other private and public X.400-based systems, or may be one of a network of Route400 MTAs belonging to an X.400 backbone, giving access to native X.400 users within the network and worldwide. In addition, messages can be exchanged with users connected to different messaging systems such as the Internet, GroupWise, Microsoft Mail & Exchange, cc:Mail, Telex and Fax, where necessary making use of other gateway products from the NET-TEL range or third parties. The Route400 gateway architecture enables an organisation to construct a single, logically integrated, messaging network from a number of existing, but incompatible, messaging systems. Gateway Architecture The Route400 Lotus Notes Gateway runs under Windows NT 4 as an NT Service on a Lotus Notes 4.5 (or later) server machine connected to a LAN, shared between a Lotus Notes network, with one or more servers, and a Route400 Message Server (MTA) The gateway processes messages to and from a co-located Lotus Notes server converting message content and address information between Notes and X.400 formats The Notes "Foreign Domain Document" and "Connection Document" are configured using the standard Lotus Notes client All Lotus Notes messages destined for transmission to the X.400 network are addressed to hierarchical usernames at the gateway domain, each with a name and organisation that are translated to X.400 The associated Route400 MTA delivers all messages originating at the gateway into the X.400 network. It also delivers all X.400 messages, whose addresses correspond to users within the Lotus Notes network, to the gateway Address Management Lotus Notes users need not be concerned with the gateway architecture. Addressing of X.400 users is transparent, using conventional Lotus Notes methods Messages to most X.400 recipients may be simply addressed by taking a name from the Lotus Notes address book In addition, any required X.400 address can be typed in full (in keyword form) and addressed to the gateway domain Lotus Notes users accessible from X.400 have standard X.400 addresses. These are matched by the Route400 MTA against routing rules corresponding to the Lotus Notes gateway Address synchronisation and mapping is performed automatically by the gateway Address mapping between X.400 and Lotus Notes can be built-in (using Domain Defined Attributes) or table-based Inter-system Message Transfer Bi-directional support for primary (To), copy (Cc) and blind copy (Bcc) recipients Bi-directional support for multi-recipient messages Preserves Lotus Notes non disclosure of BCC recipients to each other Bi-directional support for the following X.400 Body Part types: IA5 text or General Text (generation dependent on characters present in Notes text note) and Undefined (Bilaterally Defined), File Transfer or the Route400 specific DataFile (generation dependent on gateway configuration) Transfer to Lotus Notes of all X.400 body part types, mostly as Notes file attachments (ISO 6937 text must be converted in the Route400 MTA to one of IA5, Teletex or General Text before relaying to the Notes gateway) Unlimited numbers of text and file attachments allowed per message For messages from the Route400 MTA to Lotus Notes: Text body parts are attached as text notes Route400-specific DataFiles and File Transfer Body Parts are attached preserving the original file name Other body part types are attached as files and given a generated file name Text attachments are accurately converted between the IA5 (or Teletex/General Text if accented characters are present) used in X.400 and the Latin1 character repertoire An option is provided to select whether Route400 specific (DataFile), Undefined or File Transfer body parts are generated for file attachments sent from Lotus Notes An option is provided to require that the gateway generates only X.400 (1984) based messages for interworking with legacy systems. Messages that cannot fulfil this requirement will be rejected and an exception report message returned to the Lotus Notes originator True X.400 non-delivery reports are generated by the gateway for messages that are not deliverable to Lotus Notes from the Route400 MTA. Textual delivery or non-delivery reports will be generated by Lotus Notes. These are relayed to X.400 as text messages. Exception reports are generated by the gateway and sent to the Lotus Notes originator if the message is not deliverable to an X.400 recipient Bi-directional support of receipt reports (though they are sent as text messages since correlation of Notes receipt reports to original X.400 message ids is not possible in one direction and in the other direction it is simply not possible to generate a Notes receipt report) X.400 forwarded messages (of unlimited forwarding depth) are pulled up since Lotus Notes does not support true nesting of forwarded messages Message Connectivity Lotus Notes users gain access via the gateway and its associated Route400 message server to: Any user in the same organisation using Route400 or third party message clients attached to the associated message server or any other Route400 server in the backbone network Users in the same organisation connected to separate proprietary e-mail systems via other Route400 or third party gateway products Users in other organisations who are reachable via public or private X.400 messaging networks Internet e-mail users via the Route400 Internet Mail Gateway with MIME support Fax destinations via the Route400 Fax Gateway Telex destinations via third party telex gateways Addressing X.400 users from Lotus Notes Lotus Notes users find all known X.400 destination addresses pre-defined (by gateway Directory Synchronisation) in the Lotus Notes directory e.g. Owen Smith/NET-TEL@x400 Lotus Notes users can reach additional, unconfigured, destination addresses by entering the X.400 address details (in keyword format) manually eg. C=GB/A=Gold 400/P=NET-TEL/S=Smith/G=Owen Lotus Notes users can address Internet users via the Route400 Internet Gateway simply by entering the internet address and adding the Lotus Notes gateway foreign domain eg. owen.smith@net-tel.co.uk@x400 Lotus Notes users can address fax numbers via the Route400 Fax Gateway simply by entering a full, quoted fax address and adding the Lotus Notes gateway foreign domain eg. "Fax: +44 1223 566727 Owen Smith"@x400. The fax number must be either a full national or international number. Lotus Notes users can address Telex users via third party telex gateways simply by entering a full, quoted Telex address and adding the Lotus Notes gateway foreign domain e.g. "Telex: 123456 "NET-TEL" G"@x400. Addressing Lotus Notes users from Route400 The gateway keeps all synchronised Lotus Notes addresses in a nominated Route400 address book Users can enter additional Notes destination addresses into their own private Route400 address book Lotus Notes recipients can reside in any Lotus Notes domain, not just the gateway-attached one In order to provide seamless X.400 integration, all Lotus Notes users can be made to appear to have full X.400 addresses Addresses for Lotus Notes recipients take whatever form is specified in the address mappings Address conversion between X.400 and Lotus Notes is performed by look-up in a table of X.400 and Lotus Notes address equivalencies. This can be either site based (mapping the Notes organisation and preserving the username) or individual user based. Both methods may be combined, with individual mappings taking precedence, allowing for site rules with specific user exceptions Domain Defined Attributes (DDA) may also be used to supply the recipient's Notes domain and user name to the gateway, if desired Directory synchronisation Synchronises a nominated Route400 address book and the Lotus Notes address book System administrator defines when synchronisation takes place using the gateway's configuration software Gateway supports automatic synchronisation at a predefined time each day, or on demand by administrator command Automatic synchronisation eliminates manual intervention and errors Optional administrator-definable prefixes may be added to Lotus Notes addresses and Route400 ShortForm names copied from one directory to the other, enabling easy identification of recipients connected to the other messaging system Logging Gateway logging is provided at several levels and the information is saved in daily log files The lowest levels log errors only Medium levels log errors, subject fields, message collection and delivery and directory synchronisation The higher levels add body parts, recipients and other diagnostics The system administrator defines how long log files will be kept before they are automatically deleted Installation Simple to install using its Windows-based installer Easily configured into the Lotus Notes environment as a "Foreign Domain" (with associated "Connection Document") using the standard Lotus Notes client software Technical Requirements Supported platforms: Windows NT 4.0 (service pack 3 or later) Hardware requirements: IBM compatible PC with 486 processor or faster and a minimum of 48 MB of RAM (Pentium processor or faster and 64MB or more memory recommended). These are the minimum and recommended specifications for a Lotus Notes server, which the gateway must share a machine with Prerequisites: Access to Route400 MTA (release 3.50 or greater) via LAN and any suitable network operating system supporting shared files Lotus Notes 4.5 server (or later) on the same PC as the Route400 Lotus Notes gateway
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