GroupWise 5.2 Gateways

You can easily extend the functionality of GroupWise 5.2 to meet your company's needs by using gateways. These gateways can provide connectivity with remote workstations and with other messaging systems. In addition, these gateways can enable the GroupWise system to interact with the Internet or with devices such as a touch-tone telephone, a fax machine, and a pager.

GROUPWISE ASYNC GATEWAY

The GroupWise Async gateway, which comes with GroupWise 5.2, allows you to access your universal mailbox from a remote location. Using this gateway, you can dial in to the GroupWise system from any workstation that has a modem. The gateway also allows GroupWise 5.2 servers to communicate with each other through a dial-up connection.

GROUPWISE MHS GATEWAY

The GroupWise MHS gateway, which comes with GroupWise 5.2, provides connectivity between the GroupWise system and any messaging system that is Message Handling Service (MHS) compatible. As a result, you can use GroupWise 5.2 to exchange messages with MHS users.

GROUPWISE WEBACCESS

The GroupWise WebAccess gateway, which comes with GroupWise 5.2, allows you to access your universal mailbox over the Internet or over your company's intranet. (See the "Enhanced GroupWise WebAccess" section.)

GROUPWISE PHONEACCESS

The GroupWise PhoneAccess gateway, which you can purchase separately, allows you to access your universal mailbox from any touch-tone telephone. You can listen to the full text of selected messages, and you can reply to these messages. You can also forward messages to other users and send messages to a fax machine. In addition, you can accept and delegate appointments and tasks.

One of the most useful features of the GroupWise PhoneAccess gateway is the ability to automatically forward messages to a telephone or pager number. For example, you could specify that GroupWise 5.2 forward messages from a particular user to your cellular phone, or you could specify that GroupWise 5.2 forward meeting notifications to your pager.

GROUPWISE PAGER GATEWAY

The GroupWise Pager gateway, which you can purchase separately, allows you to send messages to a pager. This gateway, which works with Wireless Connection Services from Neoteric Inc., converts messages into a format that can be understood by Wireless Connection Services, which forwards the messages to the pager.

OTHER GATEWAYS

Novell also offers several gateways that provide connectivity between the GroupWise system and third-party messaging systems:

In addition, Novell offers the GroupWise Gateway for SNADS. This gateway provides connectivity between the GroupWise system and any messaging system based on Systems Network Architecture Distribution Services (SNADS).

You can download the gateways for cc:Mail and Microsoft Mail free from http://www.novell.com/groupwise/html/downloads.html. You can purchase the gateways for Lotus Notes, OfficeVision, and SNADS separately from Novell.