Tomorrow, Wednesday January 19th at 1:30pm in Room 2 Hughes Hall
there will be a presentation by Stuart Finn from Softswitch. He will
talk about Softswitch's Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) that provides
Directory Services, Document Interchange, and Management in a
heterogenous mail environment such as Miami's. The MTA provides a
X.400 backbone with transport over Ethernet.
Please try to make it, I think this product has a lot to offer towards
the integration of our electronic mail environment. If you can't
make it tommorrow we will send you a handout of Stuart's presentation.
I promised at our last meeting to provide you with more information
on X.400. I have included a Frequently Asked Questions list which is
kind of old but is still probably a good introduction. I will try to
find more up to date information and get it out.
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From: [log in to unmask]
Date: 1 Nov 92 03:01:49 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
Subject: Frequently Asked Questions on comp.protocols.iso.X400 - with answers
This is the Frequently Asked Questions file for
the mailing list MHSNEWS/newsgroup comp.protocols.iso.X400
It is sent to the list on the first of every month.
$Revision: 1.11 $
$Date: 1992/10/01 03:00:03 $
CURRENT QUESTIONS
1) What is X.400?
2) How does X.400 compare to SMTP?
3) What X.400 implementations are available?
4) Where can I FTP the X.400 standards?
5) Where can I find more information about X.400 and OSI?
6) How do I send to Telefax from X.400?
7) On which type of network may I use X.400
8) What books can be recommended on X.400?
9) What is my X.400 address?
10) Why does mail to /..../@gateway fail?
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1) What is X.400?
=================
X.400 is the short name for the set of standards from ISO and the
CCITT that describe a mail service.
It is the only non-proprietary standard for interchange of electronic
mail that has the sanction of an official standards body.
It currently exists in 3 flavours:
- X.400/84: This is what most implementations today in fact run.
It was documented in the "Red Book" series from CCITT.
- ISO MOTIS/86 (mostly dead): This was the first attempt from ISO to
agree to what the CCITT had done. It died at the DIS stage.
It contains some elements you need in order to conform to the
European functional profiles and make manageable systems from the
1984 version, like domain-internal trace and the ISO6937 body part.
- X.400/88: This is documented in the "Blue Book" series.
Most people seem to think that this is a great improvement over 84,
but the number of systems implementing it has been underwhelming.
This one is also an International Standard by ISO.
2) HOW DOES X.400 COMPARE TO SMTP?
==================================
This depends on what you are asking for.
SMTP has got:
- Simplicity
- Wide acceptance
- Public domain implementations
- Public domain user interfaces
X.400 has got:
- Acceptance in the standards communities
- Commercial vendors of service
- Defined ways to transfer things other than ASCII text
(but only a few implementations have implemented it)
- Standard notifications of delivery to user's mailbox and notification
of a message being read by the user (these ones are often implemented, too!)
3) WHAT X.400 IMPLEMENTATIONS EXIST?
====================================
The answer to this question formed the largest and fastest-changing part
of the FAQ; it is now sent out as a separate message. It should be the
one immediately following this one.
4) Where can I FTP the X.400 standards?
=======================================
Officially, you can't.
The OSI community has a large number of organizations that derive
revenue from *selling* copies of these standards.
The CCITT, not being funded in that way, made an experiment in which
they made all the CCITT documents available for anonymous FTP, but
that experiment terminated on December 31, 1991, to be replaced by a
service run out of the ITU offices in Geneva at some later date.
The net result is that there are a lot of electronic copies out there,
but it is not legal to make them available for anonymous FTP after
December 31, 1991.
Note: This applies ONLY to the CCITT documents; ISO standards have
never been put on the network.
5) Where can I find more information about X.400 and OSI?
=========================================================
There is various information on the FTP server at Uni-Erlangen:
ftp ftp.uni-erlangen.de
and log in as "anonymous" with your e-mail address as password.
Look in the directory pub/doc/ISO/english. There are a lot of
files containing USENET articles and other sources of information
about OSI protocols and related ISO/CCITT standards. The file
INDEX contains a summary of the contents.
Markus Kuhn <[log in to unmask]>, who kindly
supplied me with this information, maintains this archive. Please
contact him if you have additional interesting files.
Other interesting places, supplied by Markus Kuhn:
ftp.uni-erlangen.de pub/doc/ISO collected USENET articles etc.
osi.ncsl.nist.gov
ftp.uu.net networking/osi ISODE and other OSI stuff
networking/x25
nic.ddn.mil protocols DoD and GOSIP related stuff
rfc RFC Repository
cs.ucl.ac.uk src ISODE, PP, OSIMIS, ...
osi-ds Internet X.500 documents
ietf-osi-oda Internet ODA documents
aun.uninett.no ietf/mhs-ds X.500 based routing drafts
ftp.ifi.uio.no pub/SGML SGML/HyTime related things
ftp.uni-stuttgart.de info/standards various documents
info/osi-rus X.400/X.500 papers
nnsc.nsf.net CCR IEEE CCR articles
uu.psi.com isode ISODE 8.0
The CCITT standards are not officially online any more.
6) How do I send Telefax from X.400?
====================================
The answer, as usual, is "ask your service provider".
The most common schemes:
- The standardized one: C=<country>;ADMD=<service provider>;X121=9<telephone>
Unfortunately, this ignores the fact that 99.9% of all fax machines are
multiuser machines, which makes it useless for mailing list purposes; there
is no way to tell the recipient who it is for.
- The DDA one: C=<country>;<a lot of other attributes>;
DD.FAX=<telno>;DD.ATTN=<name>
A lot of variants are turned on this; but it fulfils the USER requirements.
- Another variant (used by PRIME) is to allow S and G attributes in the
O/R name instead of having a DD.ATTN attribute.
7) ON WHICH TYPE OF NETWORK MAY I USE X.400
===========================================
X.400 '84 has been defined to run over a standard OSI stack (X.25,
TP0, BAS Session), thus most implementations, and all that pass
conformance tests, are able to run over a X.25 network. Often these
implementations have a X.25 or a transport level interface with
manufacturers supplied lower layers. In the case of transport-level,
X.400 is thus able to run over CLNS as long as this is supported under
the Tli or XTi.
However, in order to enable use of TCP/IP network, many
implementations offer RFC1006 ( TP0 over TCP/IP) access. This is
almost mandatory within TCP/IP based LAN and a real plus for the R&D
community which maily use TCP/IP WANs.
Additionaly a few implementations such as PP/ISODE and M.PLUS/UCOM.X
come along with an RFC1006 TS-bridge which act as a relay between
X.25 and TCP/IP network for OSI applications such as X.400 and
X.500.
Finaly many X.400 implementations for PCs or Mac have been developped
to use what exists in the PC arena such as PC-NFS, NETBios, X.32
or even dialup over modems. Carefully check what is available with
your favourite supplier!
8) WHAT BOOKS SHOULD I READ ON X.400?
=====================================
In spite of the large interest on the topic, there does not seem to be
many specific X.400 books around.
The ones that have been mentioned are:
X400 Message Handling, Standards, Interworking, Applications
by B. Plattner, C. Lanz, H. Lubich, M. M"uller and T. Walter
of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
It was translated by Stephen S. Wilson
Published by Addison-Wesley, 1991, data communications and networks series
ISBN 0-201-56503-X
Price approximately USD 41
The German edition is named:
Elektronische Post und Datenkommunikation:
X.400: Die Normen und ihre Anwendung.
Bonn: Addison-Wesley, 1989
It includes:
- Basics of the OSI reference model and the X.400 MHS model
- Stuff about interworking (mentioning RARE MHS!), EDI and more
- Improvements of X.400 from 84 to 88, and the problems in interworking
- A lot of useful appendices.
Information by Marcel Mink <[log in to unmask]>
Also mentioned by:
Philipp Hoschka <[log in to unmask]>
David McAnally <[log in to unmask]>
Carl-Uno Manros
The X.400 blue book companion
Twickenham: Technology Appraisals, 1989.
ISBN: 1-871802008
Not very detailed, but helps if one also reads the standard "in parallel".
Information by Philipp Hoschka <[log in to unmask]>
Robert Babatz, Manfred Bogen und Uta Pankoke-Babatz
Elektronische Kommunikation - X.400
Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1990.
ISBN: 3-528-06389-0
Very helpful, but in German. There might be plans for
an English edition, though.
Information by Philipp Hoschka <[log in to unmask]>
Sara Radicati
Electronic Mail, an introduction to the X.400 Message Handling Standards
McGraw-Hill 1992 (Uyless Black series on computer communication)
ISBN: 0-07-051104-7
Fairly comprehensible and readable. A good introductory text
Information by Erik Skovgaard <[log in to unmask]>
Mentioned by Hans P. Holen <[log in to unmask]>
9) What is my X.400 address?
If you have an Internet address of the form [log in to unmask], there
are two alternatives for your X.400 address:
EITHER there is a defined mapping onto standard attributes for your domain,
so that, for instance
[log in to unmask]
maps to
C=no;ADMD= ;PRMD=uninett;O=sintef;OU=delab;S=Alvestrand;G=Harald
OR there is no such mapping, and you will have to use a Domain Defined
Attribute:
[log in to unmask]
maps to
<Std. Attributes of a gateway>;DD.RFC-822=Someone(a)somewhere.com
An IETF working document (draft-ietf-x400ops-mgtdomains-01.txt) gives
the suggestion to use C=us;ADMD= ;PRMD=Internet to mean "any gateway to
the Internet". This is not yet final, but might be supported on some
X.400 services. It is not likely to work in commercial services.
The following characers have special conversion rules when used in DDAs:
@ -> (a) at sign
! -> (b) exclamation point (bang)
% -> (p) percent sign
_ -> (u) underscore
All the hoary details may be found in RFC 1327.
A more readable version is the COSINE addressing user guide, found in
English and French at nic.switch.ch.
FTP access: login COSINE, directory public/user-guides, file addressing-*
Email access: send to [log in to unmask] with the
body saying "SEND public/user-guides-address-ing-english-080992.txt"
A few places where you can use TELNET to a port, type in your address
and see what it maps to, are:
relay.surfnet.nl(130.161.180.100) port 4545
nic.switch.ch, login as "mailaddr"
sirius.dfn.de, login as "adressen"
These services are also available via X.25 PAD and e-mail; get the
addressing guide mentioned above for the details.
NOTE: If you use gateways that do not conform to RFC 987, RFC 1148 or
RFC 1327, all bets are off. For instance, the kindest description of
the result of passing through the gateways of most commercial X.400
service providers is "interesting".
10) Why does mail to /..../@gateway fail?
This is a bug of long standing.
Typically, you see a message like:
<< /...../@gateway: Cannot mail directly to files
This has a long and convoluted history.
Usually, it involves a mailer that knows how to do UUCP.
It turns out that one program used in UUCP (uuxqt) is capable of
executing a large set of commands, some of which may destroy important
files if given filename arguments.
So, in order to protect this from happening, HDB UUCP will follow in
the tradition of fixing loose thumbtacks with sledgehammers, and
refuse to accept any command that has an argument that looks like a
filename that is relative to the root.
In the common UUCP setup, where only rmail and rnews are permitted,
this does not make sense, but it is not possible to turn it off.
In Taylor UUCP, it is a compile time option.
(This information supplied by Ian Lance Taylor <[log in to unmask]>)
Another "nice" feature that helps in causing this is the "s" flag in
the Sendmail mailer definition. This strips the quotes off the local
part of the address, so that "/..../"@gateway gets turned into
/..../@gateway, which easily makes things go haywire.
This flag should be nuked on all mailers except the "local" and "prog"
mailers. Unfortunately, SUN ships it on all mailers by default, but then,
anyone who uses a SUN default Sendmail configuration has problems anyway.
.
From: [log in to unmask]
Date: 1 Nov 92 03:02:40 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
Subject: FAQ/Product list - Products implementing the X.400 standards
CURRENTLY KNOWN X.400 IMPLEMENTATIONS
-------------------------------------
$Revision: 1.6 $
$Date: 1992/11/01 03:00:07 $
NOTE: The information below does NOT form any recommendation of any
specific product. It is simply a collection of statements that have
been made about products, mostly by E-mail to the maintainer of this
group. It is neither complete nor exhaustive, and carries NO guarantees.
FREE IMPLEMENTATIONS
====================
The current free implementation of X.400 is PP, from University
College London.
It is also an SMTP mailer, and a gateway between these, so you can
communicate with "both worlds".
You can FTP PP from ftp.psi.com (isode/pp-6.0.tar.Z), from nic.eu.net
(network/isode/pp-6.0.tar.Z) or from a lot of other sites. It is also
available on FTAM, UK NIFTP and tape.
Support: [log in to unmask]
Discussion: [log in to unmask], mail pp-people-request to join.
If you have an IBM VM system, you might be interested in QK-MHS from
Queen's university at Kingston created by Andy Hooper.
It is listed below as QK-MHS.
OTHER IMPLEMENTATIONS
=====================
There are a *lot* of commercial and licenseable implementations for
various platforms; below is a partial list.
Additions are VERY welcome!!!!!!!!
Product Type of distribution Contact
-----------------------------------------------
BiMAIL Commercial [log in to unmask]
CDC MHS/4000 Commercial [log in to unmask]
DC-Mail Commercial [log in to unmask]
DG AV/400 Commercial ????
EAN License [log in to unmask]
HP X.400 Commercial ?????
ICL OfficePower Commercial [log in to unmask]
ISOCOR Commercial ????
NAR400 License [log in to unmask]
NET400 Commercial [log in to unmask]
OSITEL License [log in to unmask]
OSIWare M400 Commercial [log in to unmask]
PP Free [log in to unmask]
QK-MHS Free [log in to unmask]
Retix X.400 Commercial [log in to unmask]
Route400 Commercial ????
SoftSwitch Commercial [log in to unmask]
Sunlink MHS Commercial ?????
UCLA/Mail400 License [log in to unmask]
UCOM.X Commercial [log in to unmask]
X/EM Commercial [log in to unmask]
XT-PP Commercial [log in to unmask]
There are also a large number of gateways to X.400 from other systems,
especially PC mail systems. Below are listed some; I have no more
information about them. All of them are commercial.
Name What it does Contact
-------------------------------------------------------
BanyanMail Gateway to Banyan VINES ???
DEC All-In-One Gateway to All-In-One mail ???
Lotus CC:Mail Gateway to CC:Mail ???
Microsoft Mail Gateway to Microsoft Mail [log in to unmask]
TeamMail Gateway to LanManager mail +++ [log in to unmask]
WP Office Word Perfect mail gateway ???
WorldTalk Gateway to CC:Mail and others ???
Some keywords on those X.400 implementations I know more about:
EAN
---
X.400 MTA and User Agent.
Made at the University of British Columbia, Canada, in the Eighties.
The first X.400 implementation to get seriously used by anyone.
Currently, development is done at UBC and at SINTEF DELAB, Norway.
You need a license to run it, but the licensing situation is unclear.
M400 is the commercial product based on the original EAN.
PP
--
X.400 MTA, SMTP mailer, Grey Book (UK) mailer, UUCP mailer, and gateway
between all of the above. No user interface, can use SMTP based UAs.
Made at University College London.
Distribution is free and unlimited. You are even allowed to sell it!
UCOM.X
------
X.400 MTA and gateway to SMTP.
Formerly known as Mailway and M.Plus; developed at INRIA, France.
Now commercialized by a company called E3X.
Technical contact: [log in to unmask]
C=FR;ADMD=ATLAS;PRMD=E3X;S=E3X-tech
Commercial contact: [log in to unmask]
C=FR;ADMD=ATLAS;PRMD=E3X;S=E3X-com
This information supplied by Alain Zahm <[log in to unmask]>
NAR400
------
X.400 MTA, SMTP gateway, X-Windows, MS-Windows and line oriented
user interfaces, P7 client and server, APIs.
It is an MHS software package developed by the "Departamento de
Ingenieria de Sistemas Telematicos" (DIT) of the "Universidad
Politecnica de Madrid" (UPM).
It uses ISODE at session and below on Unix.
A license costs approx 450 ECUs ("covering distribution costs").
Contact: [log in to unmask]
C=es; ADMD=mensatex; PRMD=iris; O=upm; OU=dit; OU=cactus; S=nar400-mhs
This information supplied by Antonio Linares Torres <[log in to unmask]>
OSIWare M400
------------
X.400 product like EAN, but "commercialized".
Contact: C=fr;ADMD=atlas;PRMD=osiware;O=paris;OU=management;S=nader;G=azita
Note: This address is NOT in the RARE routing tables.
This information supplied by Bjorn Myrstad <[log in to unmask]>
For Internet users, use:
[log in to unmask] (sales)
[log in to unmask] (technical)
[log in to unmask] (product)
These addresses supplied by Brian Wideen
<[log in to unmask]>
DC-Mail
-------
Portable product - with 1988 support, P7 and X.500 access by Data
Connection, England. Supports P1 and P3 interfaces, and the X/Open
APIs.
Runs on OS/2, UNIX V.3 variants, UNIX V5.4 and some proprietary
operating systems.
This information supplied by Frank McShane <[log in to unmask]>
BiMAIL
-----
X.400/84 for Sun4 architecture, developed in Belgium based on RETIX
sources by BIM sa/nv. Includes an X-windows UA (OpenLook) with remote
access.
Supports X.25 and RFC1006. Can support RETIX UAs.
X.400/88 and X.500 support is being worked on (expected 2nd half 1992).
This information supplied by Patrick Geurts <[log in to unmask]>
<C=be;A=rtt;P=bim;O=horizon;S=geurts;G=patrick>
OSITEL/400
----------
X.400 MTA and User Agent, SMTP-Gateway and File Distribution
Server with MTA-interface. It is running on various UNIX platforms, e.g.
SUN-OS, HP-UX, PCS-MUNIX. It was developed by DFN and technically realized
by the Danet GmbH. Danet is developping an additinal X.400 UA with a WINDOW
based user interface for UNIX workstations and MS-DOS PCs. The new UA will
communicate with the MTA over LAN via Ethernet underlying TCP/IP. Members of DFN
and
some other institutions for research and development can get the license for
OSITEL/400 free of charge. The product passed the X.400 Conformance Testing
through the German Eurolab ROLAND and got the European X.400 conformance
certification. Within DFN there are about 60 installations in operation.
License contact: c=de;a=dbp;p=dfn;s=siebert
+49 (0) 30 88429941
Technical contact: c=de;a=dbp;p=danet;o=mhs;s=eisenbeis
+49 (0) 6151 868167
Commercial contact: c=de;a=dbp;p=danet;o=gsf;s=klaus
+49 (0) 6151 8680
+49 (0) 6151 131 (FAX)
This information supplied by Gabriele v. Siebert <[log in to unmask]>
SoftSwitch X.400 Gateway
------------------------
This product connects with Soft-Switch Central on IBM mainframes (MVS
or VM) and provides a gateway to X.400(84) P1/P2 for typically large
organizations who connect themselves as a PRMD to public
service/ADMDs. Any e-mail system or application that connects to
Soft-Switch Central, via standards-based or proprietary protocol can
exchange e-mail across the X.400 Gateway (typically, there are many).
The product is in production use by many large commercial
organizations in the US and Europe.
This information supplied by Greg Loux <[log in to unmask]>
Data General AV/400
-------------------
Data General has AV/X.400 for the DG/UX operating system on the AViiON
series of computer systems. It includes an RFC-conformant SMTP gateway.
This information supplied by Robert Claesson <[log in to unmask]>
ISOCOR
------
ISOCOR is a company that claims to be providing communication software
solutions for EDIFACT, CCITT 1988 & 1984 X.400, X.435 and
corresponding Security tools. Platforms are IBM RS/6000 and
PC-networks. They claim to show it all on CeBIT this year (1992).
Solutions:
ISOMAIL400 - fully conformant X.400 UAs
ISOTRADE400 - EDIFACT exchange over X.435/P2
ISOPLEX400 - MTAs
ISOSEC400 - authentication and encryption of EDIFACT and InterPersonal
messages.
ISOGATE400 - Gateways
Addres: USA
12011 San Vicente Blvd.,
Suite 500
LA, CA 90049, USA
Phone: +1 (310) 476-2671
Fax: +1 (310) 472-1055
This information supplied by Jan Hansen
<[log in to unmask]>
Control Data Systems Mail*Hub
-----------------------------
Mail*Hub includes an X.400 MTA and gateways to SMTP, IBM PROFS, IBM VM/CMS
notes, DEC Mail 11, and Group III Fax. Mail*Hub uses X.500 directory
services for configuration managment, route discovery, mail alias resolution,
and distribution list expansion. Mail*Hub runs on UNIX-based systems, from
desktop workstations to departmental servers.
Mail*Hub is a commercial product suite of Control Data Systems, Inc.
This information supplied by Kevin Jordan <[log in to unmask]>
Touch Communications WorldTalk
------------------------------
X.400 MTA running on an 80386 with UNIX. Provides gateways to several
PC mail packages including CC-mail on NOVELL LAN.
This information supplied by Johann Gunnarsson <[log in to unmask]>
TeamMail
--------
An X.400(84) product based on RETIX X.400 library.
UAs for Windows and DOS. Server for OS/2. Client/server communication
through NetBIOS.
Gateways to LanManager, SMTP, Fax and MEMO are available as separate
options.
Contact (X.400 shaped):
C=fi;ADMD=mailnet;PRMD=icl;O=icl;OU=fin1401;S=huovila;G=harri
This information supplied by Jukka Oraj?rvi <[log in to unmask]>
Contact supplied by Lauri Hirvonen, ICL Finland
ICL OfficePower
---------------
The ICL OfficePower Office Information System uses X.400 as its internal
mail protocol, integrated with the rest of the package.
Exists on ICL DRS6000 (Sparc), DRS3000 (Intel), Sun SPARC, SCO Unix and
IBM RS6000. Both OSI and TCP/IP connections supported - some platforms
only have TCP/IP. Available in several languagues.
Contact: Toby Bradwell <[log in to unmask]>
ICL DRS
-------
Two products:
- DRS/MTA(88): 1988 compliant MTA that runs on SPARC and INTEL with SVR4.
Supports GOSIP profile (CLNP and X.25) and point-to-point links.
Runs over TCP/IP, but uses an ICL protocol, not RFC1006.
Sold as "switching node" and "leaf node" MTAs.
- DRS/XMHS(88): X/Open compliant programming utilities for writing user
agents on top of DRS/MTA.
Contact: Toby Bradwell <[log in to unmask]>
ICL CARRIER 400
---------------
Fault tolerant MTA, supports an "intercept" of X.500
(this is used, among others, by the Norwegian ADMD "TelemaX.400")
Contact: Toby Bradwell <[log in to unmask]>
Route400
--------
PC-LAN based system with an MTA running on a dedicated PC with an X.25
card on the LAN and UAs running on non-dedicated PCs.
The UA has its own built-in editor for typing in text body parts for
messages, but use of an external editor is also supported. Binary body
parts are also supported. The MTA supports P1 in 84-mode, the UA/MTA
protocol is not a standard protocol.
For the UA PCs utilities exists for scanning mailboxes (e.g. to see if
any new messages has arrived) without actually running the UA.
Software for a supporting "remote UAs" (UAs running on a PC not
connected to the LAN, but e.g. via PSTN) is also available.
Further information can be a obtained from:
Net-Tel Computer Systems Ltd
4 Place Farm
WHEATHHAMPSTEAD
Hertfordshire
AL4 8SB
UK
Telephone: +44 58283 4222
This information suplied by Jens Groth Andreasen <[log in to unmask]>
UCLA/Mail400
------------
It comprises an X.400 MTA and UA, an X.400/BSMTP-Gateway and also
a user interface for users of EARN/BITNET/Netnorth.
It was developed by DFN and technically realized by SOFTLAB AG and
GMD Bonn based on UCLA/Mail and Retix software. It is running on
MVS (370, XA and ESA). The product passed the X.400 Conformance Test at
the German Eurolab. There is to pay a license-fee of which the amount
depends upon whether or not the licensee is member of DFN or a
R&D institution.
License contact: c=de;a=dbp;p=dfn;s=siebert
+49 30 88429941
Technical contact: c=de;a=dbp;p=dlr;ou=refma;s=mayerhofer
Tel: +49 8153 28920
Fax: +49 8153 281136
Information by Werner Vanselow <[log in to unmask]>
X/EM
-----
X/EM is X.400 '84 product part of Tecsiel X/OSI product line.
It is a commercial product with the following characteristics:
- Support of UA and MTA
- courses based full screen user interface for ANSI terminals
- portable on UNIX platforms and now running on the following UNIX platforms:
Digital Ultrix 4.2a, IBM Risc/6000 AIX 3.1.5, Hewlett-Packard
HP9000 HP-UX 8.0, Intel 80386 Interactive 386/ix 3.2, Sun
Microsystems SunOS 4.1.2 (Solaris 1.0), Olivetti LSX50X0 Intel
80486 Unix System V release 4, Siemens MX-300 o MX-500
SINIX-H, Bull DPX/2 B.O.S. 02.00.15
Contact:
Oronzo Berlen
Tecsiel s.p.a. tt
(an IRI-Finsiel Company) tttttt
Via Santa Maria, 19 tt
I-56126 PISA (PI) tt
Italy ttt
Phone: +39-50-512-511 (operator)
+39-50-512-529 (direct)
Fax : +39-50-589-015
+39-50-589-016
E-MAIL: [log in to unmask] (Arpanet)
Information by Oronzo Berlen <[log in to unmask]>
Retix X.400
-----------
Retix X.400 products are either portable source code or precompiled
binaries.
Portable source exists for '84 and '88 as well as API libraries for
'84 Gateway API and '88 Application and Gateway APIs.
The pre-packaged products are called OpenServer 400, and exist for
DOS, UNIX (ISC or SCO) and OS/2.
DOS and UNIX support X.25 and CLNS; OS/2 supports X.25 only. RFC1006
is supported by the UNIX versions.
There are also gateways from OpenServer 400 to:
SMTP (MG-130) (claims conformance to RFC-987 only)
Novel MHS (MG-150)
Oracle Mail (MG-170)
WordPerfect Office (MG-180)
Microsoft Mail for the Mac (MG-190) and
Microsoft Mail for the PC (MG-195)
Work is in progress on a QuickMail gateway.
Contact:
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C=us;A=telemail;P=retix;O=sm;OU1=corp;OU2=nasales;S=goulding;G=tony
Alcatel NET400
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Alcatel NET400 is a multi-platform X.400 product which runs on different HW OS
configurations (both Unix and non-Unix), amongst which:
- DEC VAX/VMS,
- Tandem/NonStop-UX,
- HP 9000/HP-UX,
- HP-Apollo/Aegis,
- Bull DPX2/BOS,
- Interactive Unix,
- SCO Unix,
- SCO Xenix,
- Apple MAC/AUX,
- Sun/SunOS and Solaris.
Planned are ports to Stratus/FTX and IBM RS6000/AIX.
Alcatel NET400 consists of different components such as MTA, MS, cUA (which is
menu-based) & rUA (MS-DOS & MS-Windows) over LAN (TCP/IP, CLNS) or WAN (X.25,
PSTN), API, DIR, EDI, FAX AU & TLX AU and a SysAdmin Module.
Alcatel NET400 Management Domains - both ADMD or PRMD - can be configurated
as single- or multi-MTA domains.
As for certifications of the product:
- ENV conformance tested and certified;
- passed the SPAG Interoperability tests (PSI);
- EPHOS compliant.
Contact:
J. Walravens
Alcatel Bell
Excelsiorlaan 44-46
B-1930 Zavemtem
BELGIUM
Phone : +32-2-719.71.39 (operator)
Alcatel 4300L PABX
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An MTA integrated with a telephone switch. In the marketing literature,
it is referred to as the "X.400 Written Mail Service of the Alcatel
4300L PABX".
Main characteristics:
- Compatible with X.400 - 1984
- Heterogeneous multi-body messages (IA5, Fax Group 3, Teletex, Videotex,
conversion text to fax Group 3)
- High reliability due to mirrored disk storage
- Message arrival is indicated to addressee by a blinking LED on his
digital telephone set
- X.121 addresses supported (fax and telex)
- Used for the delivery of faxes by the Atlasfax service of the French
ADMD Atlas400.
Contacts:
- Commercial:
Loic MELSCOET, Alcatel Business Systems, A4300L Marketing Manager
tel. +33-1-4769-4654, fax +33-1-4769-4690.
- Technical:
Antoine TOTARO, Alcatel Business Systems
tel. +33-1-4785-5582, fax +33-1-4785-5765.
This information supplied by Jan Ceuleers <[log in to unmask]>
QK-MHS
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X.400-84 MTA, X.400-84 UA, X.400-BSMTP-Gateway and X.400-PROFS-Gateway
The software package was delevoped by Andrew S. Hooper, Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario, Canada in the years 1984-87 and modified and improved
in a cooperation between University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and GMD
in St. Augustin from 1990 on. It is running on various IBM VM operating
systems (VM/SP, VM/XA, VM/ESA). At present it is mainly used for
the central German X.400-BSMTP-Gateway to connect DFN and EARN/ BITNET
and as part of the EARN-VNET-Gateway operated in Paris at C.I.R.C.E.
Contacts: Author: [log in to unmask]
European support: [log in to unmask]
XT-PP
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XT-PP is the commercial version of the popular public domain PP
software. X-Tel's product is distributed as a binary and provides a
number of enhancements to the public domain version. XT-PP is also
fully supported by X-Tel and undergoing continuing development. XT-PP
can be used with the forthcoming X.400 P7 Motif user agent XT-MUA.
For further information please contact [log in to unmask]
This information supplied by Jason P. Kitchen <[log in to unmask]>
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