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From: harald.alvestrand@elab-runit.sintef.no
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
Subject: Is anyone making MY X.400 system?
Keywords: X-windows, no tables
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Date: 25 Feb 91 09:50:50 GMT
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Hello out there,
I know that a *lot* of you are working on PP based UAs and such stuff.
I wonder if anyone is making the mail system *I* want to have......
This is a system "for end-users only" or something like that.
Critical points:

USER INTEREST:
- X.400 only, no gateways.
- Talks P1(88) to its neighbours
- X based user interface to the UA
- Well defined interface (preferably P7) where other UIs can be added

MANAGER INTEREST:
- No tables in system setup!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- "Crashes gracefully" without loss of messages when system failures like
  shutdowns and full disks occur
- Able to get *all* its information from remote info sites (preferably X.500,
  but specialized infoservers are a possibility)
- Support for at least X.25 and RFC1006 network layers
- Provides enough log to make it possible to trace messages across the network

The main purpose of this kind of software is to have a well-behaved "distribute
and forget" type of mail system, "X.400 for the masses" if you like.

If nobody is doing it, that *might* be reason enough to start somethihg....

My main comments on some other systems:
- EAN: Too many licenses. Too many bugs.
- M.PLUS: Too many licenses. No user interface. (RFC-822 only)
- PP: Too big. Too many tables.

Despite my points about "licenses", I *would* like to know also of commercial
systems that fit at least some of my points above.....

                   Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Harald.Alvestrand@elab-runit.sintef.no
C=no;PRMD=uninett;O=sintef;OU=elab-runit;S=alvestrand;G=harald
+47 7 59 70 94


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