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- From: hta@boheme.er.sintef.no (Harald Tveit Alvestrand)
- Subject: Re: X400 mail connection to Internet
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.194515.1124@ugle.unit.no>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Reply-To: harald.alvestrand@delab.sintef.no
- Organization: SINTEF DELAB, Norway
- References: <1992Jul28.162926.24306@state.systems.sa.gov.au>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 19:45:15 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- Let us see if I have it right:
-
- You have:
- - Word Perfect Office mail users
- - DEC All-in-One users
- - A PMDF system that shuffles mail between the All-in-one users and the
- Internet
- You will install, soon:
- - A RETIX-based gateway from WordPerfect Office to X.400 (I presume, although
- you did not state the brand)
-
- Well, you have several options, based on what other equipment is available:
-
- - Wait for PMDF to come out with an X.400 gateway, and let that talk to the
- RETIX system directly. This allows mail to flow
- WPOffice->Retix->PMDF->Internet
- ->All-in-one
-
- - Get PP onto an UNIX box. This beast (which is free) has both X.400 and
- Internet channels. You will then have the mailflow
- WPOffice->Retix->PP->Internet(->PMDF->All-in-one)
-
- - Get DEC Message Router software for the All-in-One system. This is an
- X.400 capable system, so you will be allowed the mailflow (I PRESUME)
- WPOffice->Retix->MRX->PMDF->Internet
- ->All-in-one
-
- One word of (mild) fire and brimstone: The current version of the WP Office
- to X.400 gateway that I know of generates addresses that are, to put it
- mildly, interesting. Example (address changed to protect the guilty):
-
- /DD.WPMAIL=HOST(USER)/Givenname/Surname/@some.x400.mapped.domain
-
- It also sends out messages that are not CRLF terminated; this screws
- up at least some X.400 systems (mine, for instance). (That is really my
- fault, not its; I should have fixed that bug.) But it seems to work.
- --
- Harald Tveit Alvestrand
- Harald.Alvestrand@delab.sintef.no
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