Hi,
At 15:38 9.10.2000 +0800, Mark Lo wrote:
>Hi,
>
> First of all, Sorry for being Off-Topic. I am facing a little problem
>in order to get my qmail server on-line. In Hong Kong, I am to apply a
>license for mail server and this mail server has to be comply with ITU-T
>standard. I just want to ask what is the standard in ITU-T from a mail
>server.
Sure there is. The standard ist called X.400. It defines a so called
Message Transfer System (MTS) with X.400 MTAs and lots of other things
including own protocols for Mail access (P3 etc).
This is a different approach wrt SMTP.
Vendors are ISOCOR, DEC (X.400 Mailhub) and others. There are X.400
Gateways available for Lotus Notes ....
Addresses are defined as Originator/Recipient (OR) in a X.500 manner
(CN=,O=,C=) etc.
>I have looking at the site www.itu.int about ITU-T standard, but I
>couldn't find anything related to mail server, and it requires me to pay
>before I have read it's document on-line.
Some older X.400 docs are available almost for free.
A lot of RFCs deal with conversion between SMTP and X.400 E-Mail.
>
> Does anyone heard of ITU-T ?? Can you tell me what it is, and how to make
>my mail server comply with ITU-T ??
X.400 E-Mail is practically dead. Do you like to raise a zombie ??
X.400 failed because there was no routing database available - SMTP uses MX
Records in DNS.
However, many good ideas and concepts were integrated into SMTP.
cheers.
eh.
>
>
>Thank you
>
>Mark
>
>
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