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Gateway to Foreign System Message Transfer

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Gateway to Foreign System Message Transfer

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The following steps are performed when the gateway transfers a message to the foreign system:

  1. The gateway assigns a foreign message identifier (ID) and stores it in the PR_FOREIGN_ID property of the message transfer envelope (MTE).
  2. The gateway creates an entry in the tracking log containing the PR_MTS_ID and PR_FOREIGN_ID properties from the MTE.

Typically, a tracking event entry is made each time the message is transferred to the foreign system. This way, transfer times can be logged. A single message can be transferred multiple times if it has multiple recipients.

If the foreign system generates a report, it typically returns the foreign message ID for the original message. The gateway should store the foreign message ID in the PR_SUBJECT_TRACE_INFO property of the report. If the foreign system does not provide this level of report correlation, the gateway should attempt to identify the original message.

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