Hi,
Offtopic Again !! Sorry !! Does anyone know ...Do I need a license to
operate a mail server in Hong Kong.?? How about in US ?
Thank You
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: Erwin Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mark Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 3:09 AM
Subject: Re: ITU-T (Off Topic)
> 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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