Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!relay.cs.toronto.edu!lsuc!smd Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc From: smd@lsuc.on.ca (Sean Doran) Subject: Re: mail to X.400 domain /PRMD=CNES/ADMD=ATLAS/C=FR/ -- how? In-Reply-To: <1991Apr27.083359.30117@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Message-ID: Reply-To: smd@lsuc.on.ca Organization: la Commission des Jeunes liberaux du Canada du PLC, Toronto References: Date: 28 Apr 91 07:50:38 GMT Lines: 49 In an article (Message-Id: <1991Apr27.083359.30117@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>), (huff@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Steve Huff, University of Kansas, Lawrence)) wrote: | Tough question. The only network I've seen connected to Internet that | uses x.400 addressing is SprintMail. Can't say for certain this will work, | but it's worth a try. Just FYI, that won't work. SprintMail (aka Telemail) is a comercial mail system run by GTE Sprint, and partly administered by alan.roszkiewicz@sprint.com. The gateway is fully bidirectional ONLY for ADMD=TELEMAIL. Sending to any other MTAs costs Sprint money which they are not willing to pay, so they have taken them out of thier RFC-987 routing tables. For instance, while ADMD=TELECOM.CANADA and ADMD=TELEMAIL talk directly to each other, sprint.com will not gateway to ADMD=TELECOM.CANADA because it costs $$$. However, the gateway is fully unidirectional in that users on other MTAs which talk to TELEMAIL can send through their RFC-987 gateway to the Internet. So, you could not send to ADMD=ATLAS via sprint.com. Nasamail and the Commercial Mail Relay people at ISI.EDU run two fully bidirectional gateways to TELEMAIL and MTAs which talk with it. The gateways are mostly publically funded, and are for "acceptable use" purposes only. There are several other X.400 networks which are even more closely connected to the Internet: XNREN, the U.S. pilot X.500 project; CDNNet, the Canadian X.400 research network; and RARE, the European Research Community Network (using X.400/X.500). All of these have several peer-level gateways which don't rely upon the spooling done at e.g. sprint.com or nasamail.nasa.gov or intermail.isi.edu. Some of them are nac.no and mhs-relay.ac.uk, and probably still mirsa.inria.fr. In this case, gplanansky would probably want to send to: /C=FR/ADMD=ATLAS/PRMD=CNES/O=CNES/OU=ARGOS2/S=gaspar/@nac.no Which will work, if the X.400 address is valid. | Steve | ----- | Steve Huff, student, University of Kansas "Still love that KU basketball!" | Microcomputer Consultant, Hill's Pet Products, Topeka, Kansas | Internet: HUFF@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Bitnet: HUFF@UKANVAX GEIS: HUFF@HILLCORP# -- Sean Doran The Law Society of Upper Canada also seand@ziebmef.mef.org Young Liberals of Canada/Parti Liberal du Canada and /C=CANADA/ADMD=TELECOM.CANADA/ID=ICS.TEST/S=TESTGROUP/@nasamail.nasa.gov