Sun Messaging Connectivity Services provides batch-mode connectivity to the IBM PROFS Mail proprietary messaging system.

Sun Messaging Connectivity Services connects the Sun Internet Mail Server to proprietary mail systems and supports integration of users from those systems to native internet.

Overview of Sun Messaging Connectivity Services Architecture

Sun Messaging Connectivity Services is composed of a backend server and messaging frontend systems that talk to the proprietary mail clients.

The Administration Console contains components to help you configure the server and monitor your client and server linked by channels. Channels perform the message format conversions and coordinate the flow of messages between the SIMS server and Profs client. Each channel converts the inbound message to the canonical format, then sends the message to the router.

The router reads the canonical address to determine the destination and passes the message to the channel associated with the recipient's local mail network. The outbound message is then converted to the outbound channel's message format and passed to the outbound channel's transport for delivery into the client mail agents.