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- From: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
- Subject: Re: Question about MX's capabilities
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.155444.13481@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Reply-To: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
- Organization: U of Cambridge, England
- References: <01GO0CRDBF9C8WXESG@bodkin.ucg.ie>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:54:44 GMT
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- In article <01GO0CRDBF9C8WXESG@bodkin.ucg.ie>,
- PHYDESBONNET@bodkin.ucg.ie (Joe Desbonnet, UCG Ireland.) writes:
- |> Can someone tell me if MX would be useful to me in this situation:
- |>
- |> I am looking for an alternative to PMDF for email. My local VAX must
- initiate
- |> all connections to the remote VAX which is the mail gateway. The
- connection is
- |> a via a commercial X25 network and the people at the remote node do not want
- |> to clock up any network costs delivering mail to me. The remote VAX
- is runing
- |> a recent version of PMDF. I know both PMDF and MX support SMTP over X25 so I
- |> guess it should be possible for both packages to communicate with each
- |> other without any problems (?) but can MX be configured so that all email
- |> transactions occur without the remote computer initiating connections?
-
- If your X25 connection permits reverse charging (and if PMDF is
- capable of asserting it) you could absorb all the call costs that way.
-
- Not, you understand, that I managed to get the X25-smtp working myself
- (not my job any more :-( ).
- --
- Robin (dump Brian Kay) Fairbairns, using the facilities of the U of
- Cambridge Computer Lab, for which permission is gratefully acknowledged.
- [Well - I'm about to sign off with the Dept of Unemployment... :-)]
-