Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!gateway From: cwm@sooner.palo-alto.ca.us (Chris Moore) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400 Subject: Re: Sun/Wollongong X.400 MTA...Can Someone Give Details? Message-ID: <1991Jun21.154352.28104@sooner.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: 22 Jun 91 20:48:24 GMT References: <9106192056.2.15147@cup.portal.com> Organization: Moore Home Computing, Palo Alto Lines: 20 Approved: usenet@ics.uci.edu x-attn: jns ReSent-From: Re-sent but not originated by Jerry Sweet ReSent-To: mhsnews@ics.uci.edu portal!cup.portal.com!Will@uunet.uu.net writes: >Can someone give details about how Sun and Wollongong have >implemented the X.400 Message Transfer Agent in UNIX? Is >the intent to gateway SMTP names to X.400 names, or in theory >could a single user agent simultaneously use SMTP and X.400 >transfer agents to send mail to the respective domains? From what I understand about both Sun's and TWG's X.400 products as well as some other similar ones you are almost always in the position of gatewaying between the two communities and that being well known to the users of the system. In some cases (IBM's AIX 3.0?) there is a user agent that is intented to apear as if it is in both communities and provide access to the various service elements --- presumably this is done by with a gateway and some special extensions to carry information from the community that the UA is really in to the other.... does that help? - Chris