Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ukma!dftsrv!amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov!dweissman From: dweissman@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (WiseGuy) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: mail to X.400 domain /PRMD=CNES/ADMD=ATLAS/C=FR/ -- how? Message-ID: <5155@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> Date: 30 Apr 91 16:04:24 GMT References: <7FFQ3IC@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de> Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Reply-To: dweissman@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD, USA Lines: 33 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4 In article <7FFQ3IC@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de>, heiko@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Heiko Schlichting) writes... ^ ^I have problems with this because this might be a valid X.400 address but ^this is NOT a valid RFC822 address. You are not allowed to use the ^character "/" in a RFC822 address (I know there are differences in ^the various RFCs but the newest say that "/" is forbidden). ^Our MTA (smail 3.1.20) says that this address has an invalid character ^and refuses such an address. The most MTAs of the European backbones ^refuses such an address too. ^ ^Any idea to mail to a X.400-address over sprint.com without using "/" ^or "#"? The gateway at sprint.com needs the /c,/admd,/prmd, etc. to parse out the X.400 address for the Sprintmail side. Internet (SMTP) mail could care less about anything before the @ sign in "/...../@sprint.com". The format isn't straight X.400 (everyone has a different implementation of X.400 addressing for their UA/MTA) but it's what that particular gateway needs. ================================================================================ Dave Weissman - Broadband and FDDI LAN Operations Group Snail mail: NSI DECNET (SPAN) - 6153::DWEISSMAN Code 543.8 NSI TCP/IP - dweissman@128.183.112.2 Goddard Space Flight Center SPRINTnet's X.400 - Greenbelt, Maryland 20771 (C:USA,A:TELEMAIL,P:GSFC,FN:DAVID,SN:WEISSMAN) *DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER* I don't speak for nor represent the views of NASA or my company although they would both be happy if I just shut up for once......... *DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*