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From: Dan@dna.lth.se (Dan Oscarsson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
Subject: Is X.400 good for international mail?
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Date: 5 Jan 91 23:39:47 GMT
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Is X.400 good for international mail?

Some of the things I think is needed:

The body of the mail but be able to contain anything.
          How is this in X.400?
          Are there some standard formats of the contents?
          Is there a standard character set that can take all
          characters in the world? Like ISO 10646.
          Any standard for binary files, inclusion of sound or images?

The "headers" must accept any characters in the world.
          Does X.400 allow anything except ASCII and T.61?
          Why not an international character set like ISO 10646?

The address must be as global as possible without references to a path.
          That is, I do not want to tell what company is going to
          deliver my mail! I want just to send it like I do on the Internet,
          the mail routers (MTA) have do find the way to deliver the mail.


    Dan





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Dan Oscarsson                              Department of Computer Science
                                           Lund Institute of Technology
e-mail:  Dan@dna.lth.se                    Box 118
                                           S-221 00 Lund, Sweden