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CURRENTLY KNOWN X.400 IMPLEMENTATIONS
-------------------------------------
$Revision: 1.3 $
$Date: 1992/08/16 19:46:40 $

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 uu.psi.com, from nic.eu.net or from a lot of other
sites. It is also available on FTAM, UK NIFTP and tape.

Support:    [e-mail]
Discussion: [e-mail], mail pp-people-request to join.

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        [e-mail]
CDC MHS/4000    Commercial        [e-mail]
DC-Mail        Commercial        [e-mail]
DG AV/400    Commercial        ????
EAN        License            [e-mail]
HP X.400    Commercial        ?????
ICL OfficePower    Commercial        [e-mail]
ISOCOR        Commercial        ????
NAR400        License            [e-mail]
NET400        Commercial        [e-mail]
OSITEL        License            [e-mail]
OSIWare M400    Commercial        [e-mail]
Retix X.400    Commercial        [e-mail]
Route400    Commercial        ????
SoftSwitch    Commercial        [e-mail]
Sunlink MHS    Commercial        ?????
UCLA/Mail400    License            [e-mail]
UCOM.X        Commercial        [e-mail]
X/EM        Commercial        [e-mail]

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    ???
TeamMail    Gateway to LanManager mail +++    [e-mail]
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: [e-mail]
                   C=FR;ADMD=ATLAS;PRMD=E3X;S=E3X-tech
Commercial contact: [e-mail]
            C=FR;ADMD=ATLAS;PRMD=E3X;S=E3X-com
This information supplied by Alain Zahm <[e-mail]>


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: [e-mail]
    C=es; ADMD=mensatex; PRMD=iris; O=upm; OU=dit; OU=cactus; S=nar400-mhs
This information supplied by Antonio Linares Torres <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>
For Internet users, use:
     [e-mail] (sales)
     [e-mail] (technical)
     [e-mail] (product)
These addresses supplied by Brian Wideen
            <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>
<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
         [phone]
Technical contact: c=de;a=dbp;p=danet;o=mhs;s=eisenbeis
         [phone]
Commercial contact: c=de;a=dbp;p=danet;o=gsf;s=klaus
         [phone]
         [phone]      (FAX)

This information supplied by Gabriele v. Siebert <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>


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: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

This information supplied by Jan Hansen
   <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>
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.

Other ICL products:
- DRS MTA: for SVR4 (Sparc & Intel) - X.400/88 implementation.
- CARRIER 400: fault tolerant and supports an "intercept" of X.500
  (this is used, among others, by the Norwegian ADMD "TelemaX.400")

Contact: Toby Bradwell <[e-mail]>


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: [phone]

This information suplied by Jens Groth Andreasen <[e-mail]>

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
         [phone]
  Technical contact: c=de;a=dbp;p=dlr;ou=refma;s=mayerhofer
   Tel:  [phone]
   Fax:  [phone]

Information by Werner Vanselow <[e-mail]>

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: [phone] (operator)
               [phone] (direct)

        Fax  : [phone]
               [phone]

        E-MAIL: [e-mail] (Arpanet)

Information by Oronzo Berlen <[e-mail]>

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:
   [e-mail]
   C=us;A=telemail;P=retix;O=sm;OU1=corp;OU2=nasales;S=goulding;G=tony


Alcatel NET400
--------------
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 :   [phone] (operator)
.