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- From: romaguer@chx400.switch.ch (Jim Romaguera)
- Subject: Re: OSI == second system syndrome
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.141708.24691@chx400.switch.ch>
- Organization: SWITCH
- References: <id.ZIRS.GD@ferranti.com> <1992Aug31.140004.4374@news.lrz-muenchen.de> <id.TPVS._L3@ferranti.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:17:08 GMT
- Lines: 61
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- In article <id.TPVS._L3@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug31.140004.4374@news.lrz-muenchen.de> Michael.Storz@lrz.lrz-muenchen.dbp.de writes:
- >> In article <id.ZIRS.GD@ferranti.com>, peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- >> |> As X.400 gets more common, I'm getting more and more bounces. Worse, I'm
- >> |> getting bounces from replies to messages originated in X.400 land, where
- >> |> the gateway didn't put an unambiguous address in the sender field. Because
- >> |> there is no such thing as an unambiguous address in X.400.
- >
-
- (stuff deleted)
-
- >> 2) What do you mean with unambiguous address?
- >
- >I mean I'll get mail from "Joe.Blow@foo.bar.something.something" and when I
- >reply to it I get a bounce from the X.400 gatweway telling me there are half
- >a dozen Joe Blows at foo.bar.
- >
- >> 3) Why do you think that X.400 does not know such thing like an unambiguous
- >> address?
- >
- >An X.400 address is more like a pattern. It specifies search criteria in
- >greater and greater detail, but there seems to be no fixed subset of an
- >address that uniquely specifies a recipient.
- >
-
- (rest deleted)
-
- Ok my two cents worth.....
-
- The issue raised is the perception of an increasing amount of problems in
- gatewaying between RFC822 mail, which is widely used in the Internet, and to
- X.400 mail users (Internet & Commercially based). I don't know if there are
- more problems than 'normal' or whether it only appears so. Let's say for
- argument's sake that there are increasing problems.
-
- Why is this happening? And what do we do to make things better?
-
- Without alot of 'hard' data it is difficult to find the exact cause of the
- problems. My assumption is that there are now appearing alot more
- RFC822 <-> X.400 gateways on the Internet. Alot of these new gateways are
- not following the EXISTING operational procedures.
-
- To make things better, email postmasters should try and use only
- 'well operated' gateways. What is a 'well operated' gateway?
-
- The starting point is that any 'well operated' RFC822 <-> X.400 gateway
- must be conforming to RFC1327 and must follow the procedures defined by
- the IETF X.400 OPS WG.
-
- JIm
-
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