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If you don't know anything about VAX Message Router X.400 Gateway, you can
ignore this message!

At the moment I'm working for State Computing helping to install various
comms software on a MicroVAX 3100 running VMS 5.3 which talks to the world
through a DEC X25router.  We have installed VAX PSI Access V4.3 and various
MAILbus products including MRX so that users can send X.400 mail.  It all
works.

The problem is that, being a service organization, management would like to
charge users for the resources they use.  This is quite easy with most
resources, including VAX PSI% mail, but appears to be very difficult for
mail messages sent using X.400 over PSI.  I have written a TPU command file
which can get some useful data from [MB$.MRX]MRX$LOG.LOG but some
difficulties remain: 

1. The start date/time (which I get from RTSNEWCON entries in the log) and
   end date/time (which I get from RTSSESREL entries) do not quite match
   the PSI Accounting entries; in particuar the PSI call lasts
   approximately 30 seconds longer than the time indicated by the RTSSESREL
   entry, which is the last entry for the PSI call used to transfer the
   X.400 mail.

2. The MRX$LOG file contains things like "Surname" and "Given name", and
   these only if the user who sent the message has an entry in the DDS
   subscriber database.  It would be nice to have these as SYSUAF
   usernames.

3. I can see that accounting for individual X.400 messages sent in a batch
   in one PSI call will not work with my present scheme.

Has anyone dealt with this problem?  What solutions (or conclusions) did
you arrive at?

Many thanks for any assistance offered.
 
        Jeremy Begg

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