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From: bnrgate!bnr.ca!pww@uunet.uu.NET (Peter Whittaker)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
Subject: Re: X400 <-> SMTP Gateway
Summary: H/P Gateway not what it seems?
Message-ID: <1990Oct1.132343.16687@bnrgate.bnr.ca>
Date: 1 Oct 90 19:31:27 GMT
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In article <47920010@hpindda.cup.hp.com> shekhar@hpindda.cup.hp.COM (Shekhar Bhide) writes:
>
>> karl@syssup.tds.philips.nl (Karl Lovink) / 11:14 am  Sep 26, 1990 /
>
>
>> Hello Netlanders,
>
>> We are looking for a X400 <-> SMTP gateway which is transparent
>> for the end-user.
>> We need this product for one of our customers.
>> Can somebody supply me with information about such products.
>> In a week of two I will summerize all the answer I got.
>
>
>> Thanks in advance, and kind regards,
>
>Hewlett-Packard has a product called X.400/9000 which is as a X400 <-> SMTP
>gateway, product number is 32031A. Please e-mail me if you need more info..
>

While the H/P Gateway sits between your X.400 MHS and SMTP, H/P's X.400
is only an MTA:  H/P uses a proprietary mail system on top of that.

In other words, you might pay for functionality you can't or don't
want to use.

While it might not conform to netiquette, I wouldn't mind seeing
an authoritive product description from H/P posted to this newsgroup:
no one with whom I've spoken (H/P rep and others) has been able to clearly
and unambiguously state what X.400/9000 does.  The fact that it is an
X.400 interface to a proprietary e-mail system is something you have
to piece together from the sales literature and vendor descriptions.

Thanks, and may *your* OS not self destruct if you put it to sleep,

Peter W.

#define BORG_OS
if ((sleep_rc=sleep()) == -1)
switch sleep_rc {
case CATNAP:
	self_destruct();
	break;
case NO_USEFUL_VALUE:
	complain("Why are we still running 20th_C_Unix?");
	breaking;
default:
	fill_hole_in_script();
	broken;
}
#endif