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- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: E-mail to/from X.400?
- Message-ID: <9208271705.AA16068@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 17:45:00 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- In <471@imp.diablery.10A.com> devil@diablery.10A.com (Gil Tene) writes:
-
- > - What do I do to send e-mail from the internet to X.400 and back?
-
- It's unlikely that _any_ X.400 gateway would accept mail from you which
- was to be sent back to Internet. With both sender and receiver on
- Internet, they'd have no one to bill for services rendered.
-
- > - Are there any well defined X.400 gateways out there?
-
- Not sure what you mean by well-defined, but sprint.com, attmail.com,
- mcimail.com, and cgnet.com are all working fairly well. In Europe
- there are several gateways providing mail exchanger service to
- domain-style addresses which are designated for various X.400 systems.
-
- > - Can gateways I see in the Inter-Network mail guide that use
- > X.400 addressing be used to gateway to ANY X.400 address worldwide,
- > or will they only work for X.400 addresses on their local networks?
-
- Most often they will gateway only to addresses in their own administrative
- domains (ADMDs), such as ATTMail, SprintMail, etc., which are not
- necessarily worldwide, but certainly can't be called local. These
- companies (AT&T, Sprint, MCI) often have agreements with others over
- the exchange of mail, but such arrangements don't cover mail originating
- on (or reaching them via) Internet, because of the payment problem, as
- I mentioned above. They are in business to make money; they don't
- provide service unless someone (sender, receiver, or other carrier)
- pays for it.
-
- Ric
-
-