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- Network Working Group S. Kille
- Request for Comments 1148 University College London
- Updates: RFCs 822, 987, 1026, 1138 March 1990
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- Mapping between X.400(1988) / ISO 10021 and RFC 822
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- Status of this Memo
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- This RFC suggests an electronic mail protocol mapping for the
- Internet community and UK Academic Community, and requests discussion
- and suggestions for improvements. This memo does not specify an
- Internet standard. This edition includes material lost in editing.
- Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
-
- This document describes a set of mappings which will enable
- interworking between systems operating the CCITT X.400 (1988)
- Recommendations on Message Handling Systems / ISO IEC 10021 Message
- Oriented Text Interchange Systems (MOTIS) [CCITT/ISO88a], and systems
- using the RFC 822 mail protocol [Crocker82a] or protocols derived
- from RFC 822. The approach aims to maximise the services offered
- across the boundary, whilst not requiring unduly complex mappings.
- The mappings should not require any changes to end systems.
-
- This document is based on RFC 987 and RFC 1026 [Kille86a, Kille87a],
- which define a similar mapping for X.400 (1984). This document does
- not obsolete the earlier ones, as its domain of application is
- different.
-
- Specification
-
- This document specifies a mapping between two protocols. This
- specification should be used when this mapping is performed on the
- Internet or in the UK Academic Community. This specification may be
- modified in the light of implementation experience, but no
- substantial changes are expected.
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- Table of Contents
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- 1. Overview ............................................... 2
- 1.1 X.400 ................................................. 2
- 1.2 RFC 822 ............................................... 3
- 1.3 The need for conversion ............................... 4
- 1.4 General approach ...................................... 4
- 1.5 Gatewaying Model ...................................... 5
- 1.6 RFC 987 ............................................... 7
- 1.7 Aspects not covered ................................... 8
- 1.8 Subsetting ............................................ 9
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- 1.9 Document Structure .................................... 9
- 1.10 Acknowledgements ..................................... 10
- 2. Service Elements ....................................... 10
- 2.1 The Notion of Service Across a Gateway ................ 10
- 2.2 RFC 822 ............................................... 11
- 2.3 X.400 ................................................. 15
- 3. Basic Mappings ........................................ 24
- 3.1 Notation .............................................. 24
- 3.2 ASCII and IA5 ......................................... 25
- 3.3 Standard Types ........................................ 25
- 3.4 Encoding ASCII in Printable String .................... 28
- 4. Addressing ............................................. 29
- 4.1 A textual representation of MTS.ORAddress ............. 30
- 4.2 Basic Representation .................................. 30
- 4.3 EBNF.822-address <-> MTS.ORAddress .................... 34
- 4.4 Repeated Mappings ..................................... 43
- 4.5 Directory Names ....................................... 45
- 4.6 MTS Mappings .......................................... 45
- 4.7 IPMS Mappings ....... ................................. 48
- 5. Detailed Mappings ...................................... 52
- 5.1 RFC 822 -> X.400 ...................................... 52
- 5.2 Return of Contents .................................... 59
- 5.3 X.400 -> RFC 822 ...................................... 60
- Appendix A Differences with RFC 987 ....................... 79
- 1. Introduction ........................................... 79
- 2. Service Elements ....................................... 80
- 3. Basic Mappings ......................................... 80
- 4. Addressing ............................................. 80
- 5. Detailed Mappings ...................................... 80
- 6. Appendices ............................................. 81
- Appendix B Mappings specific to the JNT Mail .............. 81
- 1. Introduction ........................................... 81
- 2. Domain Ordering ........................................ 81
- 3. Acknowledge-To: ........................................ 81
- 4. Trace .................................................. 82
- 5. Timezone specification ................................. 82
- 6. Lack of 822-MTS originator specification ............... 82
- Appendix C Mappings specific to UUCP Mail ................. 83
- Appendix D Object Identifier Assignment ................... 83
- Appendix E BNF Summary .................................... 84
- Appendix F Format of address mapping tables ............... 91
- References ................................................. 92
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- Chapter 1 -- Overview
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- 1.1. X.400
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- This document relates to the CCITT 1988 X.400 Series Recommendations
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- / ISO IEC 10021 on the Message Oriented Text Interchange Service
- (MOTIS). This ISO/CCITT standard is referred to in this document as
- "X.400", which is a convenient shorthand. Any reference to the 1984
- CCITT Recommendations will be explicit. X.400 defines an
- Interpersonal Messaging System (IPMS), making use of a store and
- forward Message Transfer System. This document relates to the IPMS,
- and not to wider application of X.400. It is expected that X.400
- will be implemented very widely.
-
- 1.2. RFC 822
-
- RFC 822 is the current specification of the messaging standard on the
- Internet. This standard evolved with the evolution of the network
- from the ARPANET (created by the Defense Advanced Research Projects
- Agency) to the Internet, which now involves over 1000 networks and is
- sponsored by DARPA, NSF, DOE, NASA, and NIH. It specifies an end to
- end message format. It is used in conjunction with a number of
- different message transfer protocol environments.
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- SMTP Networks
-
- On the Internet and other TCP/IP networks, RFC 822 is used in
- conjunction with two other standards: RFC 821, also known as
- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) [Postel82a], and RFC 1034
- which is a Specification for domains and a distributed name
- service [Mockapetris87a].
-
- UUCP Networks
-
- UUCP is the UNIX to UNIX CoPy protocol, which is usually used
- over dialup telephone networks to provide a simple message
- transfer mechanism. There are some extensions to RFC 822,
- particularly in the addressing. They use domains which conform
- to RFC 1034, but not the corresponding domain nameservers
- [Horton86a].
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- Csnet
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- Some portions of Csnet follow the Internet protocols. The
- dialup portion of Csnet uses the Phonenet protocols as a
- replacement for RFC 821. This portion uses domains which
- conform to RFC 1034, but not the corresponding domain
- nameservers.
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- Bitnet
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- Some parts of Bitnet and related networks use RFC 822 related
- protocols, with EBCDIC encoding.
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- JNT Mail Networks
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- A number of X.25 networks, particularly those associated with
- the UK Academic Community, use the JNT (Joint Network Team)
- Mail Protocol, also known as Greybook [Kille84a]. This is used
- with domains and name service specified by the JNT NRS (Name
- Registration Scheme) [Larmouth83a].
-
- The mappings specified here are appropriate for all of these
- networks.
-
- 1.3. The need for conversion
-
- There is a large community using RFC 822 based protocols for mail
- services, who will wish to communicate with users of the IPMS
- provided by X.400 systems. This will also be a requirement in cases
- where communities intend to make a transition to use of an X.400
- IPMS, as conversion will be needed to ensure a smooth service
- transition. It is expected that there will be more than one gateway,
- and this specification will enable them to behave in a consistent
- manner. Note that the term gateway is used to describe a component
- performing the protocol mappings between RFC 822 and X.400. This is
- standard usage amongst mail implementors, but should be noted
- carefully by transport and network service implementors.
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- Consistency between gateways is desirable to provide:
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- 1. Consistent service to users.
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- 2. The best service in cases where a message passes through
- multiple gateways.
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- 1.4. General approach
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- There are a number of basic principles underlying the details of the
- specification. These principles are goals, and are not achieved in
- all aspects of the specification.
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- 1. The specification should be pragmatic. There should not be
- a requirement for complex mappings for "Academic" reasons.
- Complex mappings should not be required to support trivial
- additional functionality.
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- 2. Subject to 1), functionality across a gateway should be as
- high as possible.
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- 3. It is always a bad idea to lose information as a result of
- any transformation. Hence, it is a bad idea for a gateway
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- to discard information in the objects it processes. This
- includes requested services which cannot be fully mapped.
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- 4. All mail gateways actually operate at exactly one level
- above the layer on which they conceptually operate. This
- implies that the gateway must not only be cognisant of the
- semantics of objects at the gateway level, but also be
- cognisant of higher level semantics. If meaningful
- transformation of the objects that the gateway operates on
- is to occur, then the gateway needs to understand more than
- the objects themselves.
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- 5. The specification should be reversible. That is, a double
- transformation should bring you back to where you started.
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- 1.5. Gatewaying Model
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- 1.5.1. X.400
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- X.400 defines the IPMS Abstract Service in X.420/ISO 10021-7,
- [CCITT/ISO88b] which comprises of three basic services:
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- 1. Origination
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- 2. Reception
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- 3. Management
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- Management is a local interaction between the user and the IPMS, and
- is therefore not relevant to gatewaying. The first two services
- consist of operations to originate and receive the following two
- objects:
-
- 1. IPM (Interpersonal Message). This has two components: a
- heading, and a body. The body is structured as a sequence
- of body parts, which may be basic components (e.g., IA5
- text, or G3 fax), or IP Messages. The heading consists of
- fields containing end to end user information, such as
- subject, primary recipients (To:), and importance.
-
- 2. IPN (Inter Personal Notification). A notification about
- receipt of a given IPM at the UA level.
-
- The Origination service also allows for origination of a probe, which
- is an object to test whether a given IPM could be correctly received.
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- The Reception service also allows for receipt of Delivery Reports
- (DR), which indicate delivery success or failure.
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- These IPMS Services utilise the Message Transfer (MT) Abstract
- Service [CCITT/ISO88c]. The MT Abstract Service provides the
- following three basic services:
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- 1. Submission (used by IPMS Origination)
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- 2. Delivery (used by IPMS Reception)
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- 3. Administration (used by IPMS Management)
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- Administration is a local issue, and so does not affect this
- standard. Submission and delivery relate primarily to the MTS
- Message (comprising Envelope and Content), which carries an IPM or
- IPN (or other uninterpreted contents). There is also an Envelope,
- which includes an ID, an originator, and a list of recipients.
- Submission also includes the probe service, which supports the IPMS
- Probe. Delivery also includes Reports, which indicate whether a
- given MTS Message has been delivered or not.
-
- The MTS is REFINED into the MTA (Message Transfer Agent) Service,
- which define the interaction between MTAs, along with the procedures
- for distributed operation. This service provides for transfer of MTS
- Messages, Probes, and Reports.
-
- 1.5.2. RFC 822
-
- RFC 822 is based on the assumption that there is an underlying
- service, which is here called the 822-MTS service. The 822-MTS
- service provides three basic functions:
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- 1. Identification of a list of recipients.
-
- 2. Identification of an error return address.
-
- 3. Transfer of an RFC 822 message.
-
- It is possible to achieve 2) within the RFC 822 header. Some 822-MTS
- protocols, in particular SMTP, can provide additional functionality,
- but as these are neither mandatory in SMTP, nor available in other
- 822-MTS protocols, they are not considered here. Details of aspects
- specific to two 822-MTS protocols are given in Appendices B and C.
- An RFC 822 message consists of a header, and content which is
- uninterpreted ASCII text. The header is divided into fields, which
- are the protocol elements. Most of these fields are analogous to P2
- heading fields, although some are analogous to MTS Service Elements
- or MTA Service Elements.
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- 1.5.3. The Gateway
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- Given this functional description of the two services, the functional
- nature of a gateway can now be considered. It would be elegant to
- consider the 822-MTS service mapping onto the MTS Service Elements
- and RFC 822 mapping onto an IPM, but reality just does not fit.
- Another elegant approach would be to treat this document as the
- definition of an X.400 Access Unit (AU). Again, reality does not
- fit. It is necessary to consider that the IPM format definition, the
- IPMS Service Elements, the MTS Service Elements, and MTA Service
- Elements on one side are mapped into RFC 822 + 822-MTS on the other
- in a slightly tangled manner. The details of the tangle will be made
- clear in Chapter 5. Access to the MTA Service Elements is minimised.
-
- The following basic mappings are thus defined. When going from RFC
- 822 to X.400, an RFC 822 message and the associated 822-MTS
- information is always mapped into an IPM (MTA, MTS, and IPMS
- Services). Going from X.400 to RFC 822, an RFC 822 message and the
- associated 822-MTS information may be derived from:
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- 1. A Report (MTA, and MTS Services)
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- 2. An IPN (MTA, MTS, and IPMS Services)
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- 3. An IPM (MTA, MTS, and IPMS Services)
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- Probes (MTA Service) must be processed by the gateway, as discussed
- in Chapter 5. MTS Messages containing Content Types other than those
- defined by the IPMS are not mapped by the gateway, and should be
- rejected at the gateway.
-
- 1.5.4. Repeated Mappings
-
- The mappings specified here are designed to work where a message
- traverses multiple times between X.400 and RFC 822. This is often
- essential, particularly in the case of distribution lists. However,
- in general, this will lead to a level of service which is the lowest
- common denominator (approximately the services offered by RFC 822).
- In particular, there is no expectation of additional X.400 services
- being mapped - although this may be possible in some cases.
-
- 1.6. RFC 987
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- Much of this work is based on the initial specification of RFC 987
- and in its addendum RFC 1026. A basic decision is that the mapping
- will be to the full 1988 version of X.400, and not to a 1984
- compatible subset. This is important, to give good support to
- communities which will utilise full X.400 at an early date. This has
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- the following implications:
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- - This document does not obsolete RFC 987, as it has a
- different domain of application.
-
- - If a gatewayed message is being transferred to a 1984
- system, then RFC 987 should be used. If the X.400 side of
- the gateway is a 1988 system, then it should be operated in
- 1984 compatibility mode. There is no advantage and some
- disadvantage in using the new mapping, and later on applying
- X.400 downgrading rules. Note that in an environment where
- RFC 822 is of major importance, it may be desirable for
- downgrading to consider the case where the message was
- originated in an RFC 822 system, and mapped according to
- this specification.
-
- - New features of X.400 can be used to provide a much cleaner
- mapping than that defined in RFC 987.
-
- Unnecessary change is usually a bad idea. Changes on the RFC 822
- side are avoided as far as possible, so that RFC 822 users do not see
- arbitrary differences between systems conforming to this
- specification, and those following RFC 987. Changes on the X.400
- side are minimised, but are more acceptable, due to the mapping onto
- a new set of services and protocols.
-
- A summary of changes made is given in Appendix A.
-
- 1.7. Aspects not covered
-
- There have been a number of cases where RFC 987 was used in a manner
- which was not intended. This section is to make clear some
- limitations of scope. In particular, this specification does not
- specify:
-
- - Extensions of RFC 822 to provide access to all X.400
- services
-
- - X.400 user interface definition
-
- These are really coupled. To map the X.400 services, this
- specification defines a number of extensions to RFC 822. As a side
- effect, these give the 822 user access to SOME X.400 services.
- However, the aim on the RFC 822 side is to preserve current service,
- and it is intentional that access is not given to all X.400 services.
- Thus, it will be a poor choice for X.400 implementors to use RFC
- 987(88) as an interface - there are too many aspects of X.400 which
- cannot be accessed through it. If a text interface is desired, a
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- specification targeted at X.400, without RFC 822 restrictions, would
- be more appropriate.
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- 1.8. Subsetting
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- This proposal specifies a mapping which is appropriate to preserve
- services in existing RFC 822 communities. Implementations and
- specifications which subset this specification are strongly
- discouraged.
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- 1.9. Document Structure
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- This document has five chapters:
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- 1. Overview - this chapter.
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- 2. Service Elements - This describes the (end user) services
- mapped by a gateway.
-
- 3. Basic mappings - This describes some basic notation used in
- Chapters 3-5, the mappings between character sets, and some
- fundamental protocol elements.
-
- 4. Addressing - This considers the mapping between X.400 O/R
- names and RFC 822 addresses, which is a fundamental gateway
- component.
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- 5. Detailed Mappings - This describes the details of all other
- mappings.
-
- There are also six appendices:
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- A. Differences with RFC 987
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- B. Mappings Specific to JNT Mail
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- C. Mappings Specific to UUCP Mail
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- D. Object Identifier Assignment
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- E. BNF Summary
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- F. Format of Address Tables
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- WARNING:
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- THE REMAINDER OF THIS SPECIFICATION IS TECHNICALLY DETAILED.
- IT WILL NOT MAKE SENSE, EXCEPT IN THE CONTEXT OF RFC 822 AND
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- X.400 (1988). DO NOT ATTEMPT TO READ THIS DOCUMENT UNLESS
- YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THESE SPECIFICATIONS.
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- 1.10. Acknowledgements
-
- This work was partly sponsored by the Joint Network Team. The
- workshop at UCL in June 1989 to work on this specification was also
- an IFIP WG 6.5 meeting.
-
- The work in this specification was substantially based on RFC 987,
- which had input from many people.
-
- Useful comments and suggestions were made by Pete Cowen (Nottingham
- Univ), Jim Craigie (JNT), Christian Huitema (Inria), Peter Lynch
- (Prime), Julian Onions (Nottingham Univ), Sandy Shaw (Edinburgh
- Univ), Einar Stefferud (NMA), and Peter Sylvester (GMD).
-
- Chapter 2 -- Service Elements
-
- This chapter considers the services offered across a gateway built
- according to this specification. It gives a view of the
- functionality provided by such a gateway for communication with users
- in the opposite domain. This chapter considers service mappings in
- the context of SINGLE transfers only, and not repeated mappings
- through multiple gateways.
-
- 2.1. The Notion of Service Across a Gateway
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- RFC 822 and X.400 provide a number of services to the end user. This
- chapter describes the extent to which each service can be supported
- across an X.400 <-> RFC 822 gateway. The cases considered are single
- transfers across such a gateway, although the problems of multiple
- crossings are noted where appropriate.
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- 2.1.1. Origination of Messages
-
- When a user originates a message, a number of services are available.
- Some of these imply actions (e.g., delivery to a recipient), and some
- are insertion of known data (e.g., specification of a subject field).
- This chapter describes, for each offered service, to what extent it
- is supported for a recipient accessed through a gateway. There are
- three levels of support:
-
- Supported
- The corresponding protocol elements map well, and so the
- service can be fully provided.
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- Not Supported
- The service cannot be provided, as there is a complete
- mismatch.
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- Partial Support
- The service can be partially fulfilled.
-
- In the first two cases, the service is simply marked as "Supported"
- or "Not Supported". Some explanation may be given if there are
- additional implications, or the (non) support is not intuitive. For
- partial support, the level of partial support is summarised. Where
- partial support is good, this will be described by a phrase such as
- "Supported by use of.....". A common case of this is where the
- service is mapped onto a non- standard service on the other side of
- the gateway, and this would have lead to support if it had been a
- standard service. In many cases, this is equivalent to support. For
- partial support, an indication of the mechanism is given, in order to
- give a feel for the level of support provided. Note that this is not
- a replacement for Chapter 5, where the mapping is fully specified.
-
- If a service is described as supported, this implies:
-
- - Semantic correspondence.
-
- - No (significant) loss of information.
-
- - Any actions required by the service element.
-
- An example of a service gaining full support: If an RFC 822
- originator specifies a Subject: field, this is considered to be
- supported, as an X.400 recipient will get a subject indication.
-
- All RFC 822 services are supported or partially supported for
- origination. The implications of non-supported X.400 services is
- described under X.400.
-
- 2.1.2. Reception of Messages
-
- For reception, the list of service elements required to support this
- mapping is specified. This is really an indication of what a
- recipient might expect to see in a message which has been remotely
- originated.
-
- 2.2. RFC 822
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- RFC 822 does not explicitly define service elements, as distinct from
- protocol elements. However, all of the RFC 822 header fields, with
- the exception of trace, can be regarded as corresponding to implicit
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- RFC 822 service elements.
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- 2.2.1. Origination in RFC 822
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- A mechanism of mapping, used in several cases, is to map the RFC 822
- header into a heading extension in the IPM (InterPersonal Message).
- This can be regarded as partial support, as it makes the information
- available to any X.400 implementations which are interested in these
- services. Communities which require significant RFC 822 interworking
- should require that their X.400 User Agents are able to display these
- heading extensions. Support for the various service elements
- (headers) is now listed.
-
- Date:
- Supported.
-
- From:
- Supported. For messages where there is also a sender field,
- the mapping is to "Authorising Users Indication", which has
- subtly different semantics to the general RFC 822 usage of
- From:.
-
- Sender:
- Supported.
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- Reply-To:
- Supported.
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- To: Supported.
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- Cc: Supported.
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- Bcc: Supported.
-
- Message-Id:
- Supported.
-
- In-Reply-To:
- Supported, for a single reference. Where multiple
- references are given, partial support is given by mapping to
- "Cross Referencing Indication". This gives similar
- semantics.
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- References:
- Supported.
-
- Keywords:
- Supported by use of a heading extension.
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- Subject:
- Supported.
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- Comments:
- Supported by use of an extra body part.
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- Encrypted:
- Supported by use of a heading extension.
-
- Resent-*
- Supported by use of a heading extension. Note that
- addresses in these fields are mapped onto text, and so are
- not accessible to the X.400 user as addresses. In
- principle, fuller support would be possible by mapping onto
- a forwarded IP Message, but this is not suggested.
-
- Other Fields
- In particular X-* fields, and "illegal" fields in common
- usage (e.g., "Fruit-of-the-day:") are supported by use of
- heading extensions.
-
- 2.2.2. Reception by RFC 822
-
- This considers reception by an RFC 822 User Agent of a message
- originated in an X.400 system and transferred across a gateway. The
- following standard services (headers) may be present in such a
- message:
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- Date:
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- From:
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- Sender:
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- Reply-To:
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- To:
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- Cc:
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- Bcc:
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- Message-Id:
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- In-Reply-To:
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- References:
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- The following non-standard services (headers) may be present. These
- are defined in more detail in Chapter 5 (5.3.4, 5.3.6, 5.3.7):
-
- Autoforwarded:
-
- Content-Identifier:
-
- Conversion:
-
- Conversion-With-Loss:
-
- Delivery-Date:
-
- Discarded-X400-IPMS-Extensions:
-
- Discarded-X400-MTS-Extensions:
-
- DL-Expansion-History:
-
- Deferred-Delivery:
-
- Expiry-Date:
-
- Importance:
-
- Incomplete-Copy:
-
- Language:
-
- Latest-Delivery-Time:
-
- Message-Type:
-
- Obsoletes:
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- Original-Encoded-Information-Types:
-
- Originator-Return-Address:
-
- Priority:
-
- Redirection-History:
-
- Reply-By:
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- Requested-Delivery-Method:
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- Sensitivity:
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- X400-Content-Type:
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- X400-MTS-Identifier:
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- X400-Originator:
-
- X400-Received:
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- X400-Recipients:
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- 2.3. X.400
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- 2.3.1. Origination in X.400
-
- When mapping services from X.400 to RFC 822 which are not supported
- by RFC 822, new RFC 822 headers are defined. It is intended that
- these fields will be registered, and that co-operating RFC 822
- systems may use them. Where these new fields are used, and no system
- action is implied, the service can be regarded as being partially
- supported. Chapter 5 describes how to map X.400 services onto these
- new headers. Other elements are provided, in part, by the gateway as
- they cannot be provided by RFC 822.
-
- Some service elements are marked N/A (not applicable). There are
- five cases, which are marked with different comments:
-
- N/A (local)
- These elements are only applicable to User Agent / Message
- Transfer Agent interaction and so they cannot apply to RFC
- 822 recipients.
-
- N/A (PDAU)
- These service elements are only applicable where the
- recipient is reached by use of a Physical Delivery Access
- Unit (PDAU), and so do not need to be mapped by the gateway.
-
- N/A (reception)
- These services are only applicable for reception.
-
- N/A (prior)
- If requested, this service must be performed prior to the
- gateway.
-
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- N/A (MS)
- These services are only applicable to Message Store (i.e., a
- local service).
-
- Finally, some service elements are not supported. In particular, the
- new security services are not mapped onto RFC 822. Unless otherwise
- indicated, the behaviour of service elements marked as not supported
- will depend on the criticality marking supplied by the user. If the
- element is marked as critical for transfer or delivery, a non-
- delivery notification will be generated. Otherwise, the service
- request will be ignored.
-
- 2.3.1.1. Basic Interpersonal Messaging Service
-
- These are the mandatory IPM services as listed in Section 19.8 of
- X.400 / ISO/IEC 10021-1, listed here in the order given. Section
- 19.8 has cross references to short definitions of each service.
-
- Access management
- N/A (local).
-
- Content Type Indication
- Supported by a new RFC 822 header (Content-Type:).
-
- Converted Indication
- Supported by a new RFC 822 header (X400-Received:).
-
- Delivery Time Stamp Indication
- N/A (reception).
-
- IP Message Identification
- Supported.
-
- Message Identification
- Supported, by use of a new RFC 822 header
- (X400-MTS-Identifier). This new header is required, as
- X.400 has two message-ids whereas RFC 822 has only one (see
- previous service).
-
- Non-delivery Notification
- Not supported, although in general an RFC 822 system will
- return error reports by use of IP messages. In other
- service elements, this pragmatic result can be treated as
- effective support of this service element.
-
- Original Encoded Information Types Indication
- Supported as a new RFC 822 header
- (Original-Encoded-Information-Types:).
-
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- Submission Time Stamp Indication
- Supported.
-
- Typed Body
- Some types supported. IA5 is fully supported.
- ForwardedIPMessage is supported, with some loss of
- information. Other types get some measure of support,
- dependent on X.400 facilities for conversion to IA5. This
- will only be done where content conversion is not
- prohibited.
-
- User Capabilities Registration
- N/A (local).
-
- 2.3.1.2. IPM Service Optional User Facilities
-
- This section describes support for the optional (user selectable) IPM
- services as listed in Section 19.9 of X.400 / ISO/IEC 10021- 1,
- listed here in the order given. Section 19.9 has cross references to
- short definitions of each service.
-
- Additional Physical Rendition
- N/A (PDAU).
-
- Alternate Recipient Allowed
- Not supported. There is no RFC 822 service equivalent to
- prohibition of alternate recipient assignment (e.g., an RFC
- 822 system may freely send an undeliverable message to a
- local postmaster). Thus, the gateway cannot prevent
- assignment of alternative recipients on the RFC 822 side.
- This service really means giving the user control as to
- whether or not an alternate recipient is allowed. This
- specification requires transfer of messages to RFC 822
- irrespective of this service request, and so this service is
- not supported.
-
- Authorising User's Indication
- Supported.
-
- Auto-forwarded Indication
- Supported as new RFC 822 header (Auto-Forwarded:).
-
- Basic Physical Rendition
- N/A (PDAU).
-
- Blind Copy Recipient Indication
- Supported.
-
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- Body Part Encryption Indication
- Supported by use of a new RFC 822 header
- (Original-Encoded-Information-Types:), although in most
- cases it will not be possible to map the body part in
- question.
-
- Content Confidentiality
- Not supported.
-
- Content Integrity
- Not supported.
-
- Conversion Prohibition
- Supported. In this case, only messages with IA5 body parts,
- other body parts which contain only IA5, and Forwarded IP
- Messages (subject recursively to the same restrictions),
- will be mapped.
-
- Conversion Prohibition in Case of Loss of Information
- Supported.
-
- Counter Collection
- N/A (PDAU).
-
- Counter Collection with Advice
- N/A (PDAU).
-
- Cross Referencing Indication
- Supported.
-
- Deferred Delivery
- N/A (prior). This service should always be provided by the
- MTS prior to the gateway. A new RFC 822 header
- (Deferred-Delivery:) is provided to transfer information on
- this service to the recipient.
-
- Deferred Delivery Cancellation
- N/A (local).
-
- Delivery Notification
- Supported. This is performed at the gateway. Thus, a
- notification is sent by the gateway to the originator. If
- the 822-MTS protocol is JNT Mail, a notification may also be
- sent by the recipient UA.
-
- Delivery via Bureaufax Service
- N/A (PDAU).
-
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- Designation of Recipient by Directory Name
- N/A (local).
-
- Disclosure of Other Recipients
- Supported by use of a new RFC 822 header (X400-Recipients:).
- This is descriptive information for the RFC 822 recipient,
- and is not reverse mappable.
-
- DL Expansion History Indication
- Supported by use of a new RFC 822 header
- (DL-Expansion-History:).
-
- DL Expansion Prohibited
- Distribution List means MTS supported distribution list, in
- the manner of X.400. This service does not exist in the RFC
- 822 world. RFC 822 distribution lists should be regarded as
- an informal redistribution mechanism, beyond the scope of
- this control. Messages will be sent to RFC 822,
- irrespective of whether this service is requested.
- Theoretically therefore, this service is supported, although
- in practice it may appear that it is not supported.
-
- Express Mail Service
- N/A (PDAU).
-
- Expiry Date Indication
- Supported as new RFC 822 header (Expiry-Date:). In general,
- no automatic action can be expected.
-
- Explicit Conversion
- N/A (prior).
-
- Forwarded IP Message Indication
- Supported, with some loss of information. The message is
- forwarded in an RFC 822 body, and so can only be interpreted
- visually.
-
- Grade of Delivery Selection
- N/A (PDAU)
-
- Importance Indication
- Supported as new RFC 822 header (Importance:).
-
- Incomplete Copy Indication
- Supported as new RFC 822 header (Incomplete-Copy:).
-
- Language Indication
- Supported as new RFC 822 header (Language:).
-
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- Latest Delivery Designation
- Not supported. A new RFC 822 header (Latest-Delivery-Time:)
- is provided, which may be used by the recipient.
-
- Message Flow Confidentiality
- Not supported.
-
- Message Origin Authentication
- N/A (reception).
-
- Message Security Labelling
- Not supported.
-
- Message Sequence Integrity
- Not supported.
-
- Multi-Destination Delivery
- Supported.
-
- Multi-part Body
- Supported, with some loss of information, in that the
- structuring cannot be formalised in RFC 822.
-
- Non Receipt Notification Request
- Not supported.
-
- Non Repudiation of Delivery
- Not supported.
-
- Non Repudiation of Origin
- N/A (reception).
-
- Non Repudiation of Submission
- N/A (local).
-
- Obsoleting Indication
- Supported as new RFC 822 header (Obsoletes:).
-
- Ordinary Mail
- N/A (PDAU).
-
- Originator Indication
- Supported.
-
- Originator Requested Alternate Recipient
- Not supported, but is placed as comment next to address
- (X400-Recipients:).
-
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- Physical Delivery Notification by MHS
- N/A (PDAU).
-
- Physical Delivery Notification by PDS
- N/A (PDAU).
-
- Physical Forwarding Allowed
- Supported by use of a comment in a new RFC 822 header
- (X400-Recipients:), associated with the recipient in
- question.
-
- Physical Forwarding Prohibited
- Supported by use of a comment in a new RFC 822 header
- (X400-Recipients:), associated with the recipient in
- question.
-
- Prevention of Non-delivery notification
- Supported, as delivery notifications cannot be generated by
- RFC 822. In practice, errors will be returned as IP
- Messages, and so this service may appear not to be supported
- (see Non-delivery Notification).
-
- Primary and Copy Recipients Indication
- Supported.
-
- Probe
- Supported at the gateway (i.e., the gateway services the
- probe).
-
- Probe Origin Authentication
- N/A (reception).
-
- Proof of Delivery
- Not supported.
-
- Proof of Submission
- N/A (local).
-
- Receipt Notification Request Indication
- Not supported.
-
- Redirection Allowed by Originator
- Redirection means MTS supported redirection, in the manner
- of X.400. This service does not exist in the RFC 822 world.
- RFC 822 redirection (e.g., aliasing) should be regarded as
- an informal redirection mechanism, beyond the scope of this
- control. Messages will be sent to RFC 822, irrespective of
- whether this service is requested. Theoretically therefore,
-
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- this service is supported, although in practice it may
- appear that it is not supported.
-
- Registered Mail
- N/A (PDAU).
-
- Registered Mail to Addressee in Person
- N/A (PDAU).
-
- Reply Request Indication
- Supported as comment next to address.
-
- Replying IP Message Indication
- Supported.
-
- Report Origin Authentication
- N/A (reception).
-
- Request for Forwarding Address
- N/A (PDAU).
-
- Requested Delivery Method
- N/A (local). The services required must be dealt with at
- submission time. Any such request is made available through
- the gateway by use of a comment associated with the
- recipient in question.
-
- Return of Content
- In principle, this is N/A, as non-delivery notifications are
- not supported. In practice, most RFC 822 systems will
- return part or all of the content along with the IP Message
- indicating an error (see Non-delivery Notification).
-
- Sensitivity Indication
- Supported as new RFC 822 header (Sensitivity:).
-
- Special Delivery
- N/A (PDAU).
-
- Stored Message Deletion
- N/A (MS).
-
- Stored Message Fetching
- N/A (MS).
-
- Stored Message Listing
- N/A (MS).
-
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- Stored Message Summary
- N/A (MS).
-
- Subject Indication
- Supported.
-
- Undeliverable Mail with Return of Physical Message
- N/A (PDAU).
-
- Use of Distribution List
- In principle this applies only to X.400 supported
- distribution lists (see DL Expansion Prohibited).
- Theoretically, this service is N/A (prior). In practice,
- because of informal RFC 822 lists, this service can be
- regarded as supported.
-
- 2.3.2. Reception by X.400
-
- 2.3.2.1. Standard Mandatory Services
-
- The following standard IPM mandatory user facilities may be required
- for reception of RFC 822 originated mail by an X.400 UA.
-
- Content Type Indication
-
- Delivery Time Stamp Indication
-
- IP Message Identification
-
- Message Identification
-
- Non-delivery Notification
-
- Original Encoded Information Types Indication
-
- Submission Time Stamp Indication
-
- Typed Body
-
- 2.3.2.2. Standard Optional Services
-
- The following standard IPM optional user facilities may be required
- for reception of RFC 822 originated mail by an X.400 UA.
-
- Authorising User's Indication
-
- Blind Copy Recipient Indication
-
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- Cross Referencing Indication
-
- Originator Indication
-
- Primary and Copy Recipients Indication
-
- Replying IP Message Indication
-
- Subject Indication
-
- 2.3.2.3. New Services
-
- A new service "RFC 822 Header Field" is defined using the extension
- facilities. This allows for any RFC 822 header field to be
- represented. It may be present in RFC 822 originated messages, which
- are received by an X.400 UA.
-
- Chapter 3 -- Basic Mappings
-
- 3.1. Notation
-
- The X.400 protocols are encoded in a structured manner according to
- ASN.1, whereas RFC 822 is text encoded. To define a detailed
- mapping, it is necessary to refer to detailed protocol elements in
- each format. A notation to achieve this is described in this
- section.
-
- 3.1.1. RFC 822
-
- Structured text is defined according to the Extended Backus Naur Form
- (EBNF) defined in Section 2 of RFC 822 [Crocker82a]. In the EBNF
- definitions used in this specification, the syntax rules given in
- Appendix D of RFC 822 are assumed. When these EBNF tokens are
- referred to outside an EBNF definition, they are identified by the
- string "822." appended to the beginning of the string (e.g.,
- 822.addr-spec). Additional syntax rules, to be used throughout this
- specification, are defined in this chapter.
-
- The EBNF is used in two ways.
-
- 1. To describe components of RFC 822 messages (or of 822-MTS
- components). In this case, the lexical analysis defined in
- Section 3 of RFC 822 should be used. When these new EBNF
- tokens are referred to outside an EBNF definition, they are
- identified by the string "EBNF." appended to the beginning
- of the string (e.g., EBNF.bilateral-info).
-
- 2. To describe the structure of IA5 or ASCII information not in
-
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- an RFC 822 message. In these cases, tokens will either be
- self delimiting, or be delimited by self delimiting tokens.
- Comments and LWSP are not used as delimiters.
-
- 3.1.2. ASN.1
-
- An element is referred to with the following syntax, defined in EBNF:
-
- element = service "." definition *( "." definition )
- service = "IPMS" / "MTS" / "MTA"
- definition = identifier / context
- identifier = ALPHA *< ALPHA or DIGIT or "-" >
- context = "[" 1*DIGIT "]"
-
- The EBNF.service keys are shorthand for the following service
- specifications:
-
- IPMS IPMSInformationObjects defined in Annex E of X.420 / ISO
- 10021-7.
-
- MTS MTSAbstractService defined in Section 9 of X.411 / ISO
- 10021-4.
-
- MTA MTAAbstractService defined in Section 13 of X.411 / ISO
- 10021-4.
-
- The first EBNF.identifier identifies a type or value key in the
- context of the defined service specification. Subsequent
- EBNF.identifiers identify a value label or type in the context of the
- first identifier (SET or SEQUENCE). EBNF.context indicates a context
- tag, and is used where there is no label or type to uniquely identify
- a component. The special EBNF.identifier keyword "value" is used to
- denote an element of a sequence.
-
- For example, IPMS.Heading.subject defines the subject element of the
- IPMS heading. The same syntax is also used to refer to element
- values. For example, MTS.EncodedInformationTypes.[0].g3Fax refers to
- a value of MTS.EncodedInformationTypes.[0].
-
- 3.2. ASCII and IA5
-
- A gateway will interpret all IA5 as ASCII. Thus, mapping between
- these forms is conceptual.
-
- 3.3. Standard Types
-
- There is a need to convert between ASCII text, and some of the types
- defined in ASN.1 [CCITT/ISO88d]. For each case, an EBNF syntax
-
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- definition is given, for use in all of this specification, which
- leads to a mapping between ASN.1, and an EBNF construct.
-
- All EBNF syntax definitions of ASN.1 types are in lower case, whereas
- ASN.1 types are referred to with the first letter in upper case.
- Except as noted, all mappings are symmetrical.
-
- 3.3.1. Boolean
-
- Boolean is encoded as:
-
- boolean = "TRUE" / "FALSE"
-
- 3.3.2. NumericString
-
- NumericString is encoded as:
-
- numericstring = *DIGIT
-
- 3.3.3. PrintableString
-
- PrintableString is a restricted IA5String defined as:
-
- printablestring = *( ps-char )
- ps-restricted-char = 1DIGIT / 1ALPHA / " " / "'" / "+"
- / "," / "-" / "." / "/" / ":" / "=" / "?"
- ps-delim = "(" / ")"
- ps-char = ps-delim / ps-restricted-char
-
- This can be used to represent real printable strings in EBNF.
-
- 3.3.4. T.61String
-
- In cases where T.61 strings are only used for conveying human
- interpreted information, the aim of a mapping should be to render the
- characters appropriately in the remote character set, rather than to
- maximise reversibility. For these cases, the mappings to IA5 defined
- in CCITT Recommendation X.408 (1988) should be used [CCITT/ISO88a].
- These will then be encoded in ASCII.
-
- There is also a need to represent Teletex Strings in ASCII, for some
- aspects of O/R Address. For these, the following encoding is used:
-
- teletex-string = *( ps-char / t61-encoded )
- t61-encoded = "{" 1* t61-encoded-char "}"
- t61-encoded-char = 3DIGIT
-
- Common characters are mapped simply. Other octets are mapped using a
-
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- quoting mechanism similar to the printable string mechanism. Each
- octet is represented as 3 decimal digits.
-
- There are a number of places where a string may have a Teletex and/or
- Printable String representation. The following BNF is used to
- represent this.
-
- teletex-and-or-ps = [ printablestring ] [ "*" teletex-string ]
-
- The natural mapping is restricted to EBNF.ps-char, in order to make
- the full BNF easier to parse.
-
- 3.3.5. UTCTime
-
- Both UTCTime and the RFC 822 822.date-time syntax contain: Year
- (lowest two digits), Month, Day of Month, hour, minute, second
- (optional), and Timezone. 822.date-time also contains an optional
- day of the week, but this is redundant. Therefore a symmetrical
- mapping can be made between these constructs.
-
- Note:
- In practice, a gateway will need to parse various illegal
- variants on 822.date-time. In cases where 822.date-time
- cannot be parsed, it is recommended that the derived UTCTime
- is set to the value at the time of translation.
-
- The UTCTime format which specifies the timezone offset should be
- used.
-
- 3.3.6. Integer
-
- A basic ASN.1 Integer will be mapped onto EBNF.numericstring. In many
- cases ASN.1 will enumerate Integer values or use ENUMERATED. An EBNF
- encoding labelled-integer is provided. When mapping from EBNF to
- ASN.1, only the integer value is mapped, and the associated text is
- discarded. When mapping from ASN.1 to EBNF, addition of an
- appropriate text label is strongly encouraged.
-
- labelled-integer ::= [ key-string ] "(" numericstring ")"
-
- key-string = *key-char
- key-char = <a-z, A-Z, 1-9, and "-">
-
- 3.3.7. Object Identifier
-
- Object identifiers are represented in a form similar to that
- given in ASN.1. The numbers are mandatory, to ease encoding.
- It is recommended that as many strings as possible are used, to
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-
- object-identifier ::= [ defined-value ] oid-comp-list
-
- oid-comp-list ::= oid-comp oid-comp-list
- | oid-comp
-
- defined-value ::= key-string
-
- oid-comp ::= [ key-string ] "(" numericstring ")"
-
- 3.4. Encoding ASCII in Printable String
-
- Some information in RFC 822 is represented in ASCII, and needs to be
- mapped into X.400 elements encoded as printable string. For this
- reason, a mechanism to represent ASCII encoded as PrintableString is
- needed.
-
- A structured subset of EBNF.printablestring is now defined. This can
- be used to encode ASCII in the PrintableString character set.
-
- ps-encoded = *( ps-restricted-char / ps-encoded-char )
- ps-encoded-char = "(a)" ; (@)
- / "(p)" ; (%)
- / "(b)" ; (!)
- / "(q)" ; (")
- / "(u)" ; (_)
- / "(l)" ; "("
- / "(r)" ; ")"
- / "(" 3DIGIT ")"
-
- The 822.3DIGIT in EBNF.ps-encoded-char must have range 0-127, and is
- interpreted in decimal as the corresponding ASCII character. Special
- encodings are given for: at sign (@), percent (%), exclamation
- mark/bang (!), double quote ("), underscore (_), left bracket ((),
- and right bracket ()). These characters, with the exception of round
- brackets, are not included in PrintableString, but are common in RFC
- 822 addresses. The abbreviations will ease specification of RFC 822
- addresses from an X.400 system. These special encodings should be
- mapped in a case insensitive manner, but always be generated in lower
- case.
-
- A reversible mapping between PrintableString and ASCII can now be
- defined. The reversibility means that some values of printable
- string (containing round braces) cannot be generated from ASCII.
- Therefore, this mapping must only be used in cases where the
- printable strings may only be derived from ASCII (and will therefore
- have a restricted domain). For example, in this specification, it is
-
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- only applied to a Domain defined attribute which will have been
- generated by use of this specification and a value such as "(" would
- not be possible.
-
- To encode ASCII as PrintableString, the EBNF.ps-encoded syntax is
- used, with all EBNF.ps-restricted-char mapped directly. All other
- 822.CHAR are encoded as EBNF.ps-encoded-char.
-
- To encode PrintableString as ASCII, parse PrintableString as
- EBNF.ps-encoded, and then reverse the previous mapping. If the
- PrintableString cannot be parsed, then the mapping is being applied
- in to an inappropriate value, and an error should be given to the
- procedure doing the mapping. In some cases, it may be preferable to
- pass the printable string through unaltered.
-
- Some examples are now given. Note the arrows which indicate
- asymmetrical mappings:
-
- PrintableString ASCII
-
- 'a demo.' <-> 'a demo.'
- foo(a)bar <-> foo@bar
- (q)(u)(p)(q) <-> "_%"
- (a) <-> @
- (A) <-> @
- (l)a(r) <-> (a)
- (126) <-> ~
- ( -> (
- (l) <-> (
-
- Chapter 4 -- Addressing
-
- Addressing is probably the trickiest problem of an X.400 <-> RFC 822
- gateway. Therefore it is given a separate chapter. This chapter, as
- a side effect, also defines a textual representation of an X.400 O/R
- Address.
-
- Initially, we consider an address in the (human) mail user sense of
- "what is typed at the mailsystem to reference a mail user". A basic
- RFC 822 address is defined by the EBNF EBNF.822-address:
-
- 822-address = [ route ] addr-spec
-
- In an 822-MTS protocol, the originator and each recipient should be
- considered to be defined by such a construct. In an RFC 822 header,
- the EBNF.822-address is encapsulated in the 822.address syntax rule,
- and there may also be associated comments. None of this extra
- information has any semantics, other than to the end user.
-
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- The basic X.400 O/R Address, used by the MTS for routing, is defined
- by MTS.ORAddress. In IPMS, the MTS.ORAddress is encapsulated within
- IPMS.ORDescriptor.
-
- It can be seen that RFC 822 822.address must be mapped with
- IPMS.ORDescriptor, and that RFC 822 EBNF.822-address must be mapped
- with MTS.ORAddress.
-
- 4.1. A textual representation of MTS.ORAddress
-
- MTS.ORAddress is structured as a set of attribute value pairs. It is
- clearly necessary to be able to encode this in ASCII for gatewaying
- purposes. All aspects should be encoded, in order to guarantee
- return of error messages, and to optimise third party replies.
-
- 4.2. Basic Representation
-
- An O/R Address has a number of structured and unstructured
- attributes. For each unstructured attribute, a key and an encoding
- is specified. For structured attributes, the X.400 attribute is
- mapped onto one or more attribute value pairs. For domain defined
- attributes, each element of the sequence will be mapped onto a triple
- (key and two values), with each value having the same encoding. The
- attributes are as follows, with 1984 attributes given in the first
- part of the table. For each attribute, a reference is given,
- consisting of the relevant sections in X.402 / ISO 10021-2, and the
- extension identifier for 88 only attributes:
-
- Attribute (Component) Key Enc Ref Id
-
- 84/88 Attributes
-
- MTS.CountryName C P 18.3.3
- MTS.AdministrationDomainName ADMD P 18.3.1
- MTS.PrivateDomainName PRMD P 18.3.21
- MTS.NetworkAddress X121 N 18.3.7
- MTS.TerminalIdentifier T-ID N 18.3.23
- MTS.OrganizationName O P/T 18.3.9
- MTS.OrganizationalUnitNames.value OU P/T 18.3.10
- MTS.NumericUserIdentifier UA-ID N 18.3.8
- MTS.PersonalName PN P/T 18.3.12
- MTS.PersonalName.surname S P/T 18.3.12
- MTS.PersonalName.given-name G P/T 18.3.12
- MTS.PersonalName.initials I P/T 18.3.12
- MTS.PersonalName
- .generation-qualifier GQ P/T 18.3.12
- MTS.DomainDefinedAttribute.value DD P/T 18.1
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- MTS.CommonName CN P/T 18.3.2 1
- MTS.TeletexCommonName CN P/T 18.3.2 2
- MTS.TeletexOrganizationName O P/T 18.3.9 3
- MTS.TeletexPersonalName PN P/T 18.3.12 4
- MTS.TeletexPersonalName.surname S P/T 18.3.12 4
- MTS.TeletexPersonalName.given-name G P/T 18.3.12 4
- MTS.TeletexPersonalName.initials I P/T 18.3.12 4
- MTS.TeletexPersonalName
- .generation-qualifier GQ P/T 18.3.12 4
- MTS.TeletexOrganizationalUnitNames
- .value OU P/T 18.3.10 5
- MTS.TeletexDomainDefinedAttribute
- .value DD P/T 18.1 6
- MTS.PDSName PD-SYSTEM P 18.3.11 7
- MTS.PhysicalDeliveryCountryName PD-C P 18.3.13 8
- MTS.PostalCode POSTCODE P 18.3.19 9
- MTS.PhysicalDeliveryOfficeName PD-OFFICE P/T 18.3.14 10
- MTS.PhysicalDeliveryOfficeNumber PD-OFFICE-NUM P/T 18.3.15 11
- MTS.ExtensionORAddressComponents PD-EXT-D P/T 18.3.4 12
- MTS.PhysicalDeliveryPersonName PD-PN P/T 18.3.17 13
- MTS.PhysicalDelivery PD-O P/T 18.3.16 14
- OrganizationName
- MTS.ExtensionPhysicalDelivery
- AddressComponents PD-EXT-LOC P/T 18.3.5 15
- MTS.UnformattedPostalAddress PD-ADDRESS P/T 18.3.25 16
- MTS.StreetAddress STREET P/T 18.3.22 17
- MTS.PostOfficeBoxAddress PO-BOX P/T 18.3.18 18
- MTS.PosteRestanteAddress POSTE-RESTANTE P/T 18.3.20 19
- MTS.UniquePostalName PD-UNIQUE P/T 18.3.26 20
- MTS.LocalPostalAttributes PD-LOCAL P/T 18.3.6 21
- MTS.ExtendedNetworkAddress
- .e163-4-address.number NET-NUM N 18.3.7 22
- MTS.ExtendedNetworkAddress
- .e163-4-address.sub-address NET-SUB N 18.3.7 22
- MTS.ExtendedNetworkAddress
- .psap-address NET-PSAP X 18.3.7 22
- MTS.TerminalType NET-TTYPE I 18.3.24 23
-
- The following keys identify different EBNF encodings, which are
- associated with the ASCII representation of MTS.ORAddress.
-
- Key Encoding
-
- P printablestring
- N numericstring
- T teletex-string
-
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- P/T teletex-and-or-ps
- I labelled-integer
- X presentation-address
-
- The BNF for presentation-address is taken from the specification "A
- String Encoding of Presentation Address" [Kille89a].
-
- In most cases, the EBNF encoding maps directly to the ASN.1 encoding
- of the attribute. There are a few exceptions. In cases where an
- attribute can be encoded as either a PrintableString or NumericString
- (Country, ADMD, PRMD), either form should be mapped into the BNF.
- When generating ASN.1, the NumericString encoding should be used if
- the string contains only digits.
-
- There are a number of cases where the P/T (teletex-and-or-ps)
- representation is used. Where the key maps to a single attribute,
- this choice is reflected in the encoding of the attribute (attributes
- 10-21). For most of the 1984 attributes and common name, there is a
- printablestring and a teletex variant. This pair of attributes is
- mapped onto the single component here. This will give a clean
- mapping for the common cases where only one form of the name is used.
-
- 4.2.1. Encoding of Personal Name
-
- Handling of Personal Name and Teletex Personal Name based purely on
- the EBNF.standard-type syntax defined above is likely to be clumsy.
- It seems desirable to utilise the "human" conventions for encoding
- these components. A syntax is defined, which is designed to provide
- a clean encoding for the common cases of O/R address specification
- where:
-
- 1. There is no generational qualifier
-
- 2. Initials contain only letters
-
- 3. Given Name does not contain full stop ("."), and is at least
- two characters long.
-
- 4. If Surname contains full stop, then it may not be in the
- first two characters, and either initials or given name is
- present.
-
- The following EBNF is defined:
-
- encoded-pn = [ given "." ] *( initial "." ) surname
-
- given = 2*<ps-char not including ".">
-
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- initial = ALPHA
-
- surname = printablestring
-
- This can be used to map from any string containing only printable
- string characters to an O/R address personal name. Parse the string
- according to the EBNF. The given name and surname are assigned
- directly. All EBNF.initial tokens are concatenated without
- intervening full stops to generate the initials.
-
- For an O/R address which follows the above restrictions, a string can
- be derived in the natural manner. In this case, the mapping will be
- reversible.
-
- For example:
-
- GivenName = "Marshall"
- Surname = "Rose"
-
- Maps with "Marshall.Rose"
-
- Initials = "MT"
- Surname = "Rose"
-
- Maps with "M.T.Rose"
-
- GivenName = "Marshall"
- Initials = "MT"
- Surname = "Rose"
-
- Maps with "Marshall.M.T.Rose"
- Note that X.400 suggest that Initials is used to encode ALL initials.
- Therefore, the proposed encoding is "natural" when either GivenName
- or Initials, but not both, are present. The case where both are
- present can be encoded, but this appears to be contrived!
-
- 4.2.2. Standard Encoding of MTS.ORAddress
-
- Given this structure, we can specify a BNF representation of an O/R
- Address.
-
- std-or-address = 1*( "/" attribute "=" value ) "/"
- attribute = standard-type
- / "RFC-822"
- / registered-dd-type
- / dd-key "." std-printablestring
-
- standard-type = key-string
-
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- = key-string
- dd-key = key-string
-
- value = std-printablestring
-
- std-printablestring
- = *( std-char / std-pair )
- std-char = <"{", "}", "*", and any ps-char
- except "/" and "=">
- std-pair = "$" ps-char
-
- The standard-type is any key defined in the table in Section 4.2,
- except PN, and DD. The value, after quote removal, should be
- interpreted according to the defined encoding.
-
- If the standard-type is PN, the value is interpreted according to
- EBNF.encoded-pn, and the components of MTS.PersonalName and/or
- MTS.TeletexPersonalName derived accordingly.
-
- If dd-key is the recognised Domain Defined string (DD), then the type
- and value should be interpreted according to the syntax implied from
- the encoding, and aligned to either the teletex or printable string
- form. Key and value should have the same encoding.
-
- If value is "RFC-822", then the (printable string) Domain Defined
- Type of "RFC-822" is assumed. This is an optimised encoding of the
- domain defined type defined by this specification.
-
- The matching of all keywords should be done in a case- independent
- manner.
-
- If the value is registered-dd-type, the value is registered with the
- IANA and will be listed in the Assigned Numbers RFC, then the value
- should be interpreted accordingly. This restriction maximises the
- syntax checking which can be done at a gateway.
-
- 4.3. EBNF.822-address <-> MTS.ORAddress
-
- Ideally, the mapping specified would be entirely symmetrical and
- global, to enable addresses to be referred to transparently in the
- remote system, with the choice of gateway being left to the Message
- Transfer Service. There are two fundamental reasons why this is not
- possible:
-
- 1. The syntaxes are sufficiently different to make this
- awkward.
-
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- 2. In the general case, there would not be the necessary
- administrative co-operation between the X.400 and RFC 822
- worlds, which would be needed for this to work.
-
- Therefore, an asymmetrical mapping is defined, which can be
- symmetrical where there is appropriate administrative control.
-
- 4.3.1. X.400 encoded in RFC 822
-
- The std-or-address syntax is used to encode O/R Address information
- in the 822.local-part of EBNF.822-address. Further O/R Address
- information may be associated with the 822.domain component. This
- cannot be used in the general case, basically due to character set
- problems, and lack of order in X.400 O/R Addresses. The only way to
- encode the full PrintableString character set in a domain is by use
- of the 822.domain-ref syntax (i.e., 822.atom). This is likely to
- cause problems on many systems. The effective character set of
- domains is in practice reduced from the RFC 822 set, by restrictions
- imposed by domain conventions and policy.
-
- A generic 822.address consists of a 822.local-part and a sequence of
- 822.domains (e.g., <@domain1,@domain2:user@domain3>). All except the
- 822.domain associated with the 822.local-part (domain3 in this case)
- should be considered to specify routing within the RFC 822 world, and
- will not be interpreted by the gateway (although they may have
- identified the gateway from within the RFC 822 world).
-
- This form of source routing is now discouraged in the Internet
- (Host Requirements, page 58 [Braden89a]).
-
- The 822.domain associated with the 822.local-part may also identify
- the gateway from within the RFC 822 world. This final 822.domain may
- be used to determine some number of O/R Address attributes. The
- following O/R Address attributes are considered as a hierarchy, and
- may be specified by the domain. They are (in order of hierarchy):
-
- Country, ADMD, PRMD, Organisation, Organisational Unit
-
- There may be multiple Organisational Units.
-
- Associations may be defined between domain specifications, and
- some set of attributes. This association proceeds hierarchically.
- For example, if a domain implies ADMD, it also implies country.
- Subdomains under this are associated according to the O/R Address
- hierarchy. For example:
-
- => "AC.UK" might be associated with
- C="GB", ADMD="GOLD 400", PRMD="UK.AC"
-
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- then domain "R-D.Salford.AC.UK" maps with
- C="GB", ADMD="GOLD 400", PRMD="UK.AC", O="Salford", OU="R-D"
-
- There are three basic reasons why a domain/attribute mapping might
- be maintained, as opposed to using simply subdomains:
-
- 1. As a shorthand to avoid redundant X.400 information. In
- particular, there will often be only one ADMD per country,
- and so it does not need to be given explicitly.
-
- 2. To deal with cases where attribute values do not fit the
- syntax:
-
- domain-syntax = alphanum [ *alphanumhyphen alphanum ]
- alphanum = <ALPHA or DIGIT>
- alphanumhyphen = <ALPHA or DIGIT or HYPHEN>
-
- Although RFC 822 allows for a more general syntax, this
- restricted syntax is chosen as it is the one chosen by the
- various domain service administrations.
-
- 3. To deal with missing elements in the hierarchy. A domain
- may be associated with an omitted attribute in conjunction
- with several present ones. When performing the algorithmic
- insertion of components lower in the hierarchy, the omitted
- value should be skipped. For example, if "HNE.EGM" is
- associated with "C=TC", "ADMD=ECQ", "PRMD=HNE", and omitted
- organisation, then "ZI.HNE.EGM" is mapped with "C=TC",
- "ADMD=ECQ", "PRMD=HNE", "OU=ZI". It should be noted that
- attributes may have null values, and that this is treated
- separately from omitted attributes (whilst it would be bad
- practice to treat these two cases differently, they must be
- allowed for).
-
- This set of mappings need only be known by the gateways relaying
- between the RFC 822 world, and the O/R Address space associated with
- the mapping in question. However, it is desirable (for the optimal
- mapping of third party addresses) for all gateways to know these
- mappings. A format for the exchange of this information is defined
- in Appendix F.
-
- The remaining attributes are encoded on the LHS, using the EBNF.std-
- or-address syntax. For example:
-
- /I=J/S=Linnimouth/GQ=5/@Marketing.Widget.COM
-
- encodes the MTS.ORAddress consisting of:
-
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- MTS.CountryName = "TC"
- MTS.AdministrationDomainName = "BTT"
- MTS.OrganizationName = "Widget"
- MTS.OrganizationalUnitNames.value = "Marketing"
- MTS.PersonalName.surname = "Linnimouth"
- MTS.PersonalName.initials = "J"
- MTS.PersonalName.generation-qualifier = "5"
-
- The first three attributes are determined by the domain Widget.COM.
- Then, the first element of OrganizationalUnitNames is determined
- systematically, and the remaining attributes are encoded on the LHS.
- In an extreme case, all of the attributes will be on the LHS. As the
- domain cannot be null, the RHS will simply be a domain indicating the
- gateway.
-
- The RHS (domain) encoding is designed to deal cleanly with common
- addresses, and so the amount of information on the RHS should be
- maximised. In particular, it covers the Mnemonic O/R Address using a
- 1984 compatible encoding. This is seen as the dominant form of O/R
- Address. Use of other forms of O/R Address, and teletex encoded
- attributes will require an LHS encoding.
-
- There is a further mechanism to simplify the encoding of common
- cases, where the only attributes to be encoded on the LHS is a (non-
- Teletex) Personal Name attributes which comply with the restrictions
- of 4.2.1. To achieve this, the 822.local-part shall be encoded as
- EBNF.encoded-pn. In the previous example, if the GenerationQualifier
- was not present, the encoding J.Linnimouth@Marketing.Widget.COM would
- result.
-
- From the standpoint of the RFC 822 Message Transfer System, the
- domain specification is simply used to route the message in the
- standard manner. The standard domain mechanisms are are used to
- select appropriate gateways for the corresponding O/R Address space.
- In most cases, this will be done by registering the higher levels,
- and assuming that the gateway can handle the lower levels.
-
- 4.3.2. RFC 822 encoded in X.400
-
- In some cases, the encoding defined above may be reversed, to give a
- "natural" encoding of genuine RFC 822 addresses. This depends
- largely on the allocation of appropriate management domains.
-
- The general case is mapped by use of domain defined attributes. A
- Domain defined type "RFC-822" is defined. The associated attribute
- value is an ASCII string encoded according to Section 3.3.3 of this
- specification. The interpretation of the ASCII string depends on the
- context of the gateway.
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- 1. In the context of RFC 822, and RFC 1034
- [Crocker82a, Mockapetris87a], the string can be used
- directly.
-
- 2. In the context of the JNT Mail protocol, and the NRS
- [Kille84a, Larmouth83a], the string should be interpreted
- according to Mailgroup Note 15 [Kille84b].
-
- 3. In the context of UUCP based systems, the string should be
- interpreted as defined in [Horton86a].
-
- Other O/R Address attributes will be used to identify a context in
- which the O/R Address will be interpreted. This might be a
- Management Domain, or some part of a Management Domain which
- identifies a gateway MTA. For example:
-
- C = "GB"
- ADMD = "GOLD 400"
- PRMD = "UK.AC"
- O = "UCL"
- OU = "CS"
- "RFC-822" = "Jimmy(a)WIDGET-LABS.CO.UK"
-
- OR
-
- C = "TC"
- ADMD = "Wizz.mail"
- PRMD = "42"
- "rfc-822" = "Postel(a)venera.isi.edu"
-
- Note in each case the PrintableString encoding of "@" as "(a)". In
- the second example, the "RFC-822" domain defined attribute is
- interpreted everywhere within the (Private) Management Domain. In
- the first example, further attributes are needed within the
- Management Domain to identify a gateway. Thus, this scheme can be
- used with varying levels of Management Domain co-operation.
-
- 4.3.3. Component Ordering
-
- In most cases, ordering of O/R Address components is not significant
- for the mappings specified. However, Organisational Units (printable
- string and teletex forms) and Domain Defined Attributes are specified
- as SEQUENCE in MTS.ORAddress, and so their order may be significant.
- This specification needs to take account of this:
-
- 1. To allow consistent mapping into the domain hierarchy
-
- 2. To ensure preservation of order over multiple mappings.
-
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- There are three places where an order must be specified:
-
- 1. The text encoding (std-or-address) of MTS.ORAddress as used
- in the local-part of an RFC 822 address. An order is needed
- for those components which may have multiple values
- (Organisational Unit, and Domain Defined Attributes). When
- generating an 822.std-or-address, components of a given type
- shall be in hierarchical order with the most significant
- component on the RHS. If there is an Organisation
- Attribute, it shall be to the right of any Organisational
- Unit attributes. These requirements are for the following
- reasons:
-
- - Alignment to the hierarchy of other components in RFC
- 822 addresses (thus, Organisational Units will appear
- in the same order, whether encoded on the RHS or LHS).
- Note the differences of JNT Mail as described in
- Appendix B.
-
- - Backwards compatibility with RFC 987/1026.
-
- - To ensure that gateways generate consistent addresses.
- This is both to help end users, and to generate
- identical message ids.
-
- Further, it is recommended that all other attributes are
- generated according to this ordering, so that all attributes
- so encoded follow a consistent hierarchy.
-
- There will be some cases where an X.400 O/R address of this
- encoding will be generated by an end user from external
- information. The ordering of attributes may be inverted or
- mixed. For this reason, the following heuristics may be
- applied:
-
- - If there is an Organisation attribute to the left of
- any Org Unit attribute, assume that the hierarchy is
- inverted.
-
- - If an inversion of the Org Unit hierarchy generates a
- valid address, when the preferred order does not,
- assume that the hierarchy is inverted.
-
- 2. For the Organisational Units (OU) in MTS.ORAddress, the
- first OU in the SEQUENCE is the most significant, as
- specified in X.400.
-
- 3. For the Domain Defined Attributes in MTS.ORAddress, the
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- First Domain Defined Attribute in the SEQUENCE is the most
- significant.
-
- Note that although this ordering is mandatory for this
- mapping, there are NO implications on ordering significance
- within X.400, where this is a Management Domain issue.
-
- 4.3.4. RFC 822 -> X.400
-
- There are two basic cases:
-
- 1. X.400 addresses encoded in RFC 822. This will also include
- RFC 822 addresses which are given reversible encodings.
-
- 2. "Genuine" RFC 822 addresses.
-
- The mapping should proceed as follows, by first assuming case 1).
-
- STAGE I.
-
- 1. If the 822-address is not of the form:
-
- local-part "@" domain
-
- Go to stage II.
-
- NOTE:It may be appropriate to reduce a source route address
- to this form by removal of all bar the last domain. In
- terms of the design intentions of RFC 822, this would
- be an incorrect action. However, in most real cases,
- it will do the "right" thing and provide a better
- service to the end user. This is a reflection on the
- excessive and inappropriate use of source routing in
- RFC 822 based systems. Either approach, or the
- intermediate approach of stripping only domain
- references which reference the local gateway are
- conformant to this specification.
-
- 2. Attempt to parse EBNF.domain as:
-
- *( domain-syntax "." ) known-domain
-
- Where EBNF.known-domain is the longest possible match in a
- list of supported mappings (see Appendix F). If this fails,
- and the EBNF.domain does not explicitly identify the local
- gateway, go to stage II. If it succeeds, allocate the
- attributes associated with EBNF.known-domain, and
- systematically allocate the attributes implied by each
-
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- EBNF.domain-syntax component. If the domain explicitly
- identifies the gateway, allocate no attributes.
-
- 3. If the local-part contains any characters not in
- PrintableString, go to stage II.
-
- 4. If the 822.local-part uses the 822.quoted-string encoding,
- remove this quoting. Parse the (unquoted) 822.local-part
- according to the EBNF EBNF.std-or-address. If this parse
- fails, parse the local-part according to the EBNF
- EBNF.encoded-pn. The result is a set of type/value pairs.
- If the values generated conflict with those derived in step
- 2 (e.g., a duplicated country attribute), the domain should
- be assumed to be an RFC 987 gateway. In this case, take
- only the LHS derived attributes. Otherwise add LHS and RHS
- derived attributes together.
-
- 5. Associate the EBNF.attribute-value syntax (determined from
- the identified type) with each value, and check that it
- conforms. If not, go to stage II.
-
- 6. Ensure that the set of attributes conforms both to the
- MTS.ORAddress specification and to the restrictions on this
- set given in X.400. If not go to stage II.
-
- 7. Build the O/R Address from this information.
-
-
- STAGE II.
-
- This will only be reached if the RFC 822 EBNF.822-address is not
- a valid X.400 encoding. If the address is an 822-MTS recipient
- address, it must be rejected, as there is a need to interpret
- such an address in X.400. For the 822-MTS return address, and
- any addresses in the RFC 822 header, they should now be encoded
- as RFC 822 addresses in an X.400 O/R Name:
-
- 1. Convert the EBNF.822-address to PrintableString, as
- specified in Chapter 3.
-
- 2. The "RFC-822" domain defined attribute should be generated
- from this string.
-
- 3. Build the rest of the O/R Address in the local Management
- Domain agreed manner, so that the O/R Address will receive a
- correct global interpretation.
-
- Note that the domain defined attribute value has a maximum length
-
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- of MTS.ub-domain-defined-attribute-value-length (128). If this
- is exceeded by a mapping at the MTS level, then the gateway
- should reject the message in question. If this occurs at the
- IPMS level, then the action should depend on the policy being
- taken, which is discussed in Section 5.1.3.
-
- 4.3.5. X.400 -> RFC 822
-
- There are two basic cases:
-
- 1. RFC 822 addresses encoded in X.400.
-
- 2. "Genuine" X.400 addresses. This may include symmetrically
- encoded RFC 822 addresses.
-
- When a MTS Recipient O/R Address is interpreted, gatewaying will be
- selected if there a single "RFC-822" domain defined attribute
- present. In this case, use mapping A. For other O/R Addresses
- which:
-
- 1. Contain the special attribute.
-
- AND
-
- 2. Identifies the local gateway or any other known gateway with
- the other attributes.
-
- Use mapping A. In other cases, use mapping B.
-
- NOTE:
- A pragmatic approach would be to assume that any O/R
- Address with the special domain defined attribute identifies
- an RFC 822 address. This will usually work correctly, but is
- in principle not correct.
-
- Mapping A
-
- 1. Map the domain defined attribute value to ASCII, as defined
- in Chapter 3.
-
- Mapping B
-
- This will be used for X.400 addresses which do not use the explicit
- RFC 822 encoding.
-
- 1. For all string encoded attributes, remove any leading or
- trailing spaces, and replace adjacent spaces with a single
- space.
-
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- 2. Noting the hierarchy specified in 4.3.1, determine the
- maximum set of attributes which have an associated domain
- specification. If no match is found, allocate the domain as
- the domain specification of the local gateway, and go to
- step 4.
-
- 3. Following the 4.3.1 hierarchy and noting any omitted
- components implied by the mapping tables (see Appendix F),
- if each successive component exists, and conforms to the
- syntax EBNF.domain-syntax (as defined in 4.3.1), allocate
- the next subdomain. At least one attribute of the X.400
- address should not be mapped onto subdomain, as
- 822.local-part cannot be null.
-
- 4. If the remaining components are personal-name components,
- conforming to the restrictions of 4.2.1, then EBNF.encoded-
- pn should be derived to form 822.local-part. In other cases
- the remaining components should simply be encoded as a
- 822.local-part using the EBNF.std-or-address syntax. If
- necessary, the 822.quoted-string encoding should be used.
-
- If the derived 822.local-part can only be encoded by use of
- 822.quoted-string, then use of the mapping defined
- in [Kille89b] may be appropriate. Use of this mapping is
- discouraged.
-
- 4.4. Repeated Mappings
-
- The mappings defined are symmetrical and reversible across a single
- gateway. The symmetry is particularly useful in cases of (mail
- exploder type) distribution list expansion. For example, an X.400
- user sends to a list on an RFC 822 system which he belongs to. The
- received message will have the originator and any 3rd party X.400 O/R
- Addresses in correct format (rather than doubly encoded). In cases
- (X.400 or RFC 822) where there is common agreement on gateway
- identification, then this will apply to multiple gateways.
-
- When a message traverses multiple gateways, the mapping will always
- be reversible, in that a reply can be generated which will correctly
- reverse the path. In many cases, the mapping will also be
- symmetrical, which will appear clean to the end user. For example,
- if countries "AB" and "XY" have RFC 822 networks, but are
- interconnected by X.400, the following may happen: The originator
- specifies:
-
-
- Joe.Soap@Widget.PTT.XY
-
-
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- This is routed to a gateway, which generates:
-
- C = "XY"
- ADMD = "PTT"
- PRMD = "Griddle MHS Providers"
- Organisation = "Widget Corporation"
- Surname = "Soap"
- Given Name = "Joe"
-
- This is then routed to another gateway where the mapping is reversed
- to give:
-
- Joe.Soap@Widget.PTT.XY
-
- Here, use of the gateway is transparent.
-
- Mappings will only be symmetrical where mapping tables are defined.
- In other cases, the reversibility is more important, due to the (far
- too frequent) cases where RFC 822 and X.400 services are partitioned.
-
- The syntax may be used to source route. THIS IS STRONGLY
- DISCOURAGED. For example:
-
- X.400 -> RFC 822 -> X.400
-
- C = "UK"
- ADMD = "Gold 400"
- PRMD = "UK.AC"
- "RFC-822" = "/PN=Duval/DD.Title=Manager/(a)Inria.ATLAS.FR"
-
- This will be sent to an arbitrary UK Academic Community gateway by
- X.400. Then it will be sent by JNT Mail to another gateway
- determined by the domain Inria.ATLAS.FR (FR.ATLAS.Inria). This will
- then derive the X.400 O/R Address:
-
- C = "FR"
- ADMD = "ATLAS"
- PRMD = "Inria"
- PN.S = "Duval"
- "Title" = "Manager"
-
- Similarly:
- RFC 822 -> X.400 -> RFC 822
-
- "/C=UK/ADMD=BT/PRMD=AC/RFC-822=jj(a)seismo.css.gov/"
- @monet.berkeley.edu
-
- This will be sent to monet.berkeley.edu by RFC 822, then to the AC
-
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- PRMD by X.400, and then to jj@seismo.css.gov by RFC 822.
-
- 4.5. Directory Names
-
- Directory Names are an optional part of O/R Name, along with O/R
- Address. The RFC 822 addresses are mapped onto the O/R Address
- component. As there is no functional mapping for the Directory Name
- on the RFC 822 side, a textual mapping should be used. There is no
- requirement for reversibility in terms of the goals of this
- specification. There may be some loss of functionality in terms of
- third party recipients where only a directory name is given, but this
- seems preferable to the significant extra complexity of adding a full
- mapping for Directory Names.
-
- 4.6. MTS Mappings
-
- The basic mappings at the MTS level are:
-
- 1) 822-MTS originator ->
- MTS.PerMessageSubmissionFields.originator-name
- MTS.OtherMessageDeliveryFields.originator-name ->
- 822-MTS originator
-
- 2) 822-MTS recipient ->
- MTS.PerRecipientMessageSubmissionFields
- MTS.OtherMessageDeliveryFields.this-recipient-name ->
- 822-MTS recipient
-
- 822-MTS recipients and return addresses are encoded as EBNF.822-
- address.
-
- The MTS Originator is always encoded as MTS.OriginatorName, which
- maps onto MTS.ORAddressAndOptionalDirectoryName, which in turn maps
- onto MTS.ORName.
-
- 4.6.1. RFC 822 -> X.400
-
- From the 822-MTS Originator, use the basic ORAddress mapping, to
- generate MTS.PerMessageSubmissionFields.originator-name (MTS.ORName),
- without a DirectoryName.
-
- For recipients, the following settings should be made for each
- component of MTS.PerRecipientMessageSubmissionFields.
-
- recipient-name
- This should be derived from the 822-MTS recipient by the
- basic ORAddress mapping.
-
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- This should be set according to content return policy, as
- discussed in Section 5.2.
-
- explicit-conversion
- This optional component should be omitted, as this service
- is not needed.
-
- extensions
- The default value (no extensions) should be used.
-
- 4.6.2. X.400 -> RFC 822
-
- The basic functionality is to generate the 822-MTS originator and
- recipients. There is information present on the X.400 side, which
- cannot be mapped into analogous 822-MTS services. For this reason,
- new RFC 822 fields are added for the MTS Originator and Recipients.
- The information discarded at the 822-MTS level should be present in
- these fields. There may also be the need to generate a delivery
- report.
-
- 4.6.2.1. 822-MTS Mappings
-
- Use the basic ORAddress mapping, to generate the 822-MTS originator
- (return address) from MTS.OtherMessageDeliveryFields.originator-name
- (MTS.ORName). If MTS.ORName.directory-name is present, it should be
- discarded.
-
- The 822-MTS recipient is conceptually generated from
- MTS.OtherMessageDeliveryFields.this-recipient-name. This is done by
- taking MTS.OtherMessageDeliveryFields.this-recipient-name, and
- generating an 822-MTS recipient according to the basic ORAddress
- mapping, discarding MTS.ORName.directory-name if present. However,
- if this model was followed exactly, there would be no possibility to
- have multiple 822-MTS recipients on a single message. This is
- unacceptable, and so layering is violated. The mapping needs to use
- the MTA level information, and map each value of
- MTA.PerRecipientMessageTransferFields.recipient-name, where the
- responsibility bit is set, onto an 822-MTS recipient.
-
- 4.6.2.2. Generation of RFC 822 Headers
-
- Not all per-recipient information can be passed at the 822-MTS level.
- For this reason, two new RFC 822 headers are created, in order to
- carry this information to the RFC 822 recipient. These fields are
- "X400-Originator:" and "X400-Recipients:".
-
- The "X400-Originator:" field should be set to the same value as the
-
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- 822-MTS originator. In addition, if
- MTS.OtherMessageDeliveryFields.originator-name (MTS.ORName) contains
- MTS.ORName.directory-name then this Directory Name should be
- represented in an 822.comment.
-
- Recipient names, taken from each value of
- MTS.OtherMessageDeliveryFields.this-recipient-name and
- MTS.OtherMessageDeliveryFields.other-recipient-names should be made
- available to the RFC 822 user by use of the "X400-Recipients:" field.
- By taking the recipients at the MTS level, disclosure of recipients
- will be dealt with correctly. If any MTS.ORName.directory-name is
- present, it should be represented in an 822.comment. If
- MTS.OtherMessageDeliveryFields.orignally-intended-recipient-name is
- present, then it should be represented in an associated 822.comment,
- starting with the string "Originally Intended Recipient".
-
- In addition, the following per-recipient services from
- MTS.OtherMessageDeliveryFields.extensions should be represented in
- comments if they are used. None of these services can be provided on
- RFC 822 networks, and so in general these will be informative strings
- associated with other MTS recipients. In some cases, string values
- are defined. For the remainder, the string value may be chosen by
- the implementor. If the parameter has a default value, then no
- comment should be inserted.
-
- requested-delivery-method
-
- physical-forwarding-prohibited
- "(Physical Forwarding Prohibited)".
-
- physical-forwarding-address-request
- "(Physical Forwarding Address Requested)".
-
- physical-delivery-modes
-
- registered-mail-type
-
- recipient-number-for-advice
-
- physical-rendition-attributes
-
- physical-delivery-report-request
- "(Physical Delivery Report Requested)".
-
- proof-of-delivery-request
- "(Proof of Delivery Requested)".
-
-
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- 4.6.2.3. Delivery Report Generation
-
- If MTA.PerRecipientMessageTransferFields.per-recipient-indicators
- requires a positive delivery notification, this should be
- generated by the gateway. Supplementary Information should be
- set to indicate that the report is gateway generated.
-
- 4.6.3. Message IDs (MTS)
-
- A mapping from 822.msg-id to MTS.MTSIdentifier is defined. The
- reverse mapping is not needed, as MTS.MTSIdentifier is always
- mapped onto new RFC 822 fields. The value of
- MTS.MTSIdentifier.local-part will facilitate correlation of
- gateway errors.
-
- To map from 822.msg-id, apply the standard mapping to
- 822.msg-id, in order to generate an MTS.ORAddress. The Country,
- ADMD, and PRMD components of this should be used to generate
- MTS.MTSIdentifier.global-domain-identifier.
- MTS.MTSIdentifier.local-identifier should be set to the
- 822.msg-id, including the braces "<" and ">". If this string is
- longer than MTS.ub-local-id-length (32), then it should be
- truncated to this length.
-
- The reverse mapping is not used in this specification. It
- would be applicable where MTS.MTSIdentifier.local-identifier is
- of syntax 822.msg-id, and it algorithmically identifies
- MTS.MTSIdentifier.
-
- 4.7. IPMS Mappings
-
- All RFC 822 addresses are assumed to use the 822.mailbox syntax.
- This should include all 822.comments associated with the lexical
- tokens of the 822.mailbox. In the IPMS O/R Names are encoded as
- MTS.ORName. This is used within the IPMS.ORDescriptor,
- IPMS.RecipientSpecifier, and IPMS.IPMIdentifier. An asymmetrical
- mapping is defined between these components.
-
- 4.7.1. RFC 822 -> X.400
-
- To derive IPMS.ORDescriptor from an RFC 822 address.
-
- 1. Take the address, and extract an EBNF.822-address. This can
- be derived trivially from either the 822.addr-spec or
- 822.route-addr syntax. This is mapped to MTS.ORName as
- described above, and used as IMPS.ORDescriptor.formal-name.
-
- 2. A string should be built consisting of (if present):
-
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- - The 822.phrase component if the 822.address is an
- 822.phrase 822.route-addr construct.
-
- - Any 822.comments, in order, retaining the parentheses.
-
- This string should then be encoded into T.61 us a human
- oriented mapping (as described in Chapter 3). If the string
- is not null, it should be assigned to
- IPMS.ORDescriptor.free-form-name.
-
- 3. IPMS.ORDescriptor.telephone-number should be omitted.
-
- If IPMS.ORDescriptor is being used in IPMS.RecipientSpecifier,
- IPMS.RecipientSpecifier.reply-request and
- IPMS.RecipientSpecifier.notification-requests should be set to
- default values (none and false).
-
- If the 822.group construct is present, any included 822.mailbox
- should be encoded as above to generate a separate IPMS.ORDescriptor.
- The 822.group should be mapped to T.61, and a IPMS.ORDescriptor with
- only an free-form-name component built from it.
-
- 4.7.2. X.400 -> RFC 822
-
- Mapping from IPMS.ORDescriptor to RFC 822 address. In the basic
- case, where IPMS.ORDescriptor.formal-name is present, proceed as
- follows.
-
- 1. Encode IPMS.ORDescriptor.formal-name (MTS.ORName) as
- EBNF.822-address.
-
- 2a. If IPMS.ORDescriptor.free-form-name is present, convert it
- to ASCII (Chapter 3), and use this as the 822.phrase
- component of 822.mailbox using the 822.phrase 822.route-addr
- construct.
-
- 2b. If IPMS.ORDescriptor.free-form-name is absent. If
- EBNF.822-address is parsed as 822.addr-spec use this as the
- encoding of 822.mailbox. If EBNF.822-address is parsed as
- 822.route 822.addr-spec, then a 822.phrase taken from
- 822.local-part should be added.
-
- 3. If IPMS.ORDescriptor.telephone-number is present, this
- should be placed in an 822.comment, with the string "Tel ".
- The normal international form of number should be used. For
- example:
-
- (Tel +44-1-387-7050)
-
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- 4. If IPMS.ORDescriptor.formal-name.directory-name is present,
- then a text representation should be placed in a trailing
- 822.comment.
-
- 5. If IPMS.RecipientSpecifier.report-request has any non-
- default values, then an 822.comment "(Receipt Notification
- Requested)", and/or "(Non Receipt Notification Requested)",
- and/or "(IPM Return Requested)" should be appended to the
- address. The effort of correlating P1 and P2 information is
- too great to justify the gateway sending Receipt
- Notifications.
-
- 6. If IPMS.RecipientSpecifier.reply-request is True, an
- 822.comment "(Reply requested)" should be appended to the
- address.
-
- If IPMS.ORDescriptor.formal-name is absent, IPMS.ORDescriptor.free-
- form-name should be converted to ASCII, and used as 822.phrase within
- the RFC 822 822.group syntax. For example:
-
- Free Form Name ":" ";"
-
- Steps 3-6 should then be followed.
-
- 4.7.3. IP Message IDs
-
- There is a need to map both ways between 822.msg-id and
- IPMS.IPMIdentifier. This allows for X.400 Receipt Notifications,
- Replies, and Cross References to reference an RFC 822 Message ID,
- which is preferable to a gateway generated ID. A reversible and
- symmetrical mapping is defined. This allows for good things to
- happen when messages pass multiple times across the X.400/RFC 822
- boundary.
-
- An important issue with messages identifiers is mapping to the exact
- form, as many systems use these ids as uninterpreted keys. The use
- of table driven mappings is not always symmetrical, particularly in
- the light of alternative domain names, and alternative management
- domains. For this reason, a purely algorithmic mapping is used. A
- mapping which is simpler than that for addresses can be used for two
- reasons:
-
- - There is no major requirement to make message IDs "natural"
-
- - There is no issue about being able to reply to message IDs.
- (For addresses, creating a return path which works is more
- important than being symmetrical).
-
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- The mapping works by defining a way in which message IDs generated on
- one side of the gateway can be represented on the other side in a
- systematic manner. The mapping is defined so that the possibility of
- clashes is is low enough to be treated as impossible.
-
- 4.7.3.1. 822.msg-id represented in X.400
-
- IPMS.IPMIdentifier.user is omitted. The IPMS.IPMIdentifier.user-
- relative-identifier is set to a printable string encoding of the
- 822.msg-id with the angle braces ("<" and ">") removed.
-
- 4.7.3.2. IPMS.IPMIdentifier represented in RFC 822
-
- The 822.domain of 822.msg-id is set to the value "MHS". The
- 822.local-part of 822.msg-id is built as:
-
- [ printablestring ] "*" [ std-or-address ]
-
- with EBNF.printablestring being the IPMS.IPMIdentifier.user-
- relative-identifier, and std-or-address being an encoding of the
- IPMS.IPMIdentifier.user. If necessary, the 822.quoted-string
- encoding is used. For example:
-
- <"147*/S=Dietrich/O=Siemens/ADMD=DBP/C=DE/"@MHS>
-
- 4.7.3.3. 822.msg-id -> IPMS.IPMIdentifier
-
- If the 822.local-part can be parsed as:
-
- [ printablestring ] "*" [ std-or-address ]
-
- and the 822.domain is "MHS", then this ID was X.400 generated. If
- EBNF.printablestring is present, the value is assigned to
- IPMS.IPMIdentifier.user-relative-identifier. If EBNF.std-or-address
- is present, the O/R Address components derived from it are used to
- set IPMS.IPMIdentifier.user.
-
- Otherwise, this is an RFC 822 generated ID. In this case, set
- IPMS.IPMIdentifier.user-relative-identifier to a printable string
- encoding of the 822.msg-id without the angle braces.
-
- 4.7.3.4. IPMS.IPMIdentifier -> 822.msg-id
-
- If IPMS.IPMIdentifier.user is absent, and IPMS.IPMIdentifier.user-
- relative-identifier mapped to ASCII and angle braces added parses as
- 822.msg-id, then this is an RFC 822 generated ID.
-
- Otherwise, the ID is X.400 generated. Use the
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- IPMS.IPMIdentifier.user to generate an EBNF.std-or-address form
- string. Build the 822.local-part of the 822.msg-id with the syntax:
-
- [ printablestring ] "*" [ std-or-address ]
-
- The printablestring is taken from IPMS.IPMIdentifier.user-relative-
- identifier. Use 822.quoted-string if necessary. The 822.msg-id is
- generated with this 822.local-part, and "MHS" as the 822.domain.
-
- 4.7.3.5. Phrase form
-
- In "Reply-To:" and "References:", the encoding 822.phrase may be used
- as an alternative to 822.msg-id. To map from 822.phrase to
- IPMS.IPMIdentifier, assign IPMS.IPMIdentifier.user-relative-
- identifier to the phrase. When mapping from IPMS.IPMIdentifier for
- "Reply-To:" and "References:", if IPMS.IPMIdentifier.user is absent
- and IPMS.IPMIdentifier.user-relative-identifier does not parse as
- 822.msg-id, generate an 822.phrase rather than adding the domain MHS.
-
- 4.7.3.6. RFC 987 backwards compatibility
-
- The mapping proposed here is different to that used in RFC 987, as
- the RFC 987 mapping lead to changed message IDs in many cases.
- Fixing the problems is preferable to retaining backwards
- compatibility. An implementation of this standard is encouraged to
- recognise message IDs generated by RFC 987.
-
- Chapter 5 -- Detailed Mappings
-
- This chapter gives detailed mappings for the functions outlined in
- Chapters 1 and 2. It makes extensive use of the notations and
- mappings defined in Chapters 3 and 4.
-
- 5.1. RFC 822 -> X.400
-
- 5.1.1. Basic Approach
-
- A single IP Message is generated. The RFC 822 headers are used to
- generate the IPMS.Heading. The IP Message will have one IA5
- IPMS.BodyPart containing the RFC 822 message body.
-
- Some RFC 822 fields cannot be mapped onto a standard IPM Heading
- field, and so an extended field is defined in Section 5.1.2. This is
- then used for fields which cannot be mapped onto existing services.
-
- The message is submitted to the MTS, and the services required can be
- defined by specifying MTS.MessageSubmissionEnvelope. A few
- parameters of the MTA Abstract service are also specified, which are
-
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- not in principle available to the MTS User. Use of these services
- allows RFC 822 MTA level parameters to be carried in the analogous
- X.400 service elements. The advantages of this mapping far outweigh
- the layering violation.
-
- 5.1.2. X.400 Extension Field
-
- An IPMS Extension is defined:
-
- rfc-822-field HEADING-EXTENSION
- VALUE RFC822Field
- ::= id-rfc-822-field
-
- RFC822Field ::= IA5String
-
- The Object Identifier id-rfc-822-field is defined in Appendix D.
-
- To encode any RFC 822 Header using this extension, the RFC822Field
- should be set to the 822.field omitting the trailing CRLF (e.g.,
- "Fruit-Of-The-Day: Kiwi Fruit"). Structured fields should be
- unfolded. There should be no space before the ":". The reverse
- mapping builds the RFC 822 field in a straightforward manner.
-
- 5.1.3. Generating the IPM
-
- The IPM (IPMS Service Request) is generated according to the rules of
- this section. The IPMS.IPM.body usually consists of one
- IPMS.BodyPart of type IPMS.IA5TextbodyPart with
- IPMS.IA5TextBodyPart.parameters.repertoire set to the default (ia5)
- which contains the body of the RFC 822 message. The exception is
- where there is a "Comments:" field in the RFC 822 header.
-
- If no specific 1988 features are used, the IPM generated should be
- encoded as content type 2. Otherwise, it should be encoded as
- content type 22. The latter will always be the case if extension
- heading fields are generated.
-
- When generating the IPM, the issue of upper bounds must be
- considered. At the MTS and MTA level, this specification is strict
- about enforcing upper bounds. Three options are available at the IPM
- level. Use of any of these options conforms to this standard.
-
- 1. Ignore upper bounds, and generate messages in the natural
- manner. This assumes that if any truncation is done, it
- will happen at the recipient UA. This will maximise
- transfer of information, but may break some recipient UAs.
-
- 2. Reject any inbound message which would cause a message
-
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- violating constraints to be generated. This will be robust,
- but may prevent useful communication.
-
- 3. Truncate fields to the upper bounds specified in X.400.
- This will prevent problems with UAs which enforce upper
- bounds, but will sometimes discard useful information.
-
- These choices have different advantages and disadvantages, and the
- choice will depend on the exact application of the gateway.
-
- The rest of this section concerns IPMS.IPM.heading (IPMS.Heading).
- The only mandatory component of IPMS.Heading is the
- IPMS.Heading.this-IPM (IPMS.IPMIdentifier). A default should be
- generated by the gateway. With the exception of "Received:", the
- values of multiple fields should be merged (e.g., If there are two
- "To:" fields, then the mailboxes of both should be used).
- Information should be generated from the standard RFC 822 Headers as
- follows:
-
- Date:
- Ignore (Handled at MTS level)
-
- Received:
- Ignore (Handled at MTA level)
-
- Message-Id:
- Mapped to IPMS.Heading.this-IPM. For these, and all other
- fields containing 822.msg-id the mappings of Chapter 4 are
- used for each 822.msg-id.
-
- From:
- If Sender: is present, this is mapped to
- IPMS.Heading.authorizing-users. If not, it is mapped to
- IPMS.Heading.originator. For this, and other components
- containing addresses, the mappings of Chapter 4 are used
- for each address.
-
- Sender:
- Mapped to IPMS.Heading.originator.
-
- Reply-To:
- Mapped to IPMS.Heading.reply-recipients.
-
- To: Mapped to IPMS.Heading.primary-recipients
-
- Cc: Mapped to IPMS.Heading.copy-recipients.
-
- Bcc: Mapped to IPMS.Heading.blind-copy-recipients.
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- If there is one value, it is mapped to
- IPMS.Heading.replied-to-IPM, using the 822.phrase or
- 822.msg-id mapping as appropriate. If there are several
- values, they are mapped to IPMS.Heading.related-IPMs, along
- with any values from a "References:" field.
-
- References:
- Mapped to IPMS.Heading.related-IPMs.
-
- Keywords:
- Mapped onto a heading extension.
-
- Subject:
- Mapped to IPMS.Heading.subject. The field-body uses the
- human oriented mapping referenced in Chapter 3 from ASCII to
- T.61.
-
- Comments:
- Generate an IPMS.BodyPart of type IPMS.IA5TextbodyPart with
- IPMS.IA5TextBodyPart.parameters.repertoire set to the
- default (ia5), containing the value of the fields, preceded
- by the string "Comments: ". This body part should precede
- the other one.
-
- Encrypted:
- Mapped onto a heading extension.
-
- Resent-*
- Mapped onto a heading extension.
-
- Note that it would be possible to use a ForwardedIPMessage
- for these fields, but the semantics are (arguably) slightly
- different, and it is probably not worth the effort.
-
- Other Fields
- In particular X-* fields, and "illegal" fields in common
- usage (e.g., "Fruit-of-the-day:") are mapped onto a heading
- extension, unless covered by another section or appendix of
- this specification. The same treatment should be applied to
- RFC 822 fields where the content of the field does not
- conform to RFC 822 (e.g., a Date: field with unparsable
- syntax).
-
- 5.1.4. Mappings to the MTS Abstract Service
-
- The MTS.MessageSubmissionEnvelope comprises
- MTS.PerMessageSubmissionFields, and
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- MTS.PerRecipientMessageSubmissionFields. The mandatory parameters
- should be defaulted as follows.
-
- MTS.PerMessageSubmissionFields.originator-name
- This is always generated from 822-MTS, as defined in
- Chapter 4.
-
- MTS.PerMessageSubmissionFields.content-type
- Set to the value implied by the encoding of the IPM (2 or
- 22).
-
- MTS.PerRecipientMessageSubmissionFields.recipient-name
- These will always be supplied from 822-MTS, as defined in
- Chapter 4.
-
- Optional components should be left out, and default components
- defaulted, with two exceptions. For
- MTS.PerMessageSubmissionFields.per-message-indicators, the following
- settings should be made:
-
- - Alternate recipient should be allowed, as it seems desirable
- to maximise the opportunity for (reliable) delivery.
-
- - Content return request should be set according to the issues
- discussed in Section 5.2.
-
- MTS.PerMessageSubmissionFields.original-encoded-information-types
- should be made a set of one element
- BuiltInEncodedInformationTypes.ia5-text.
-
- The MTS.PerMessageSubmissionFields.content-correlator should be
- encoded as IA5String, and contain the Subject:, Message-ID:, Date:,
- and To: fields (if present). This should include the strings
- "Subject:", "Date:", "To:", "Message-ID:", and appropriate folding.
- This should be truncated to MTS.ub-content-correlator-length (512)
- characters. In addition, if there is a "Subject:" field, the
- MTS.PerMessageSubmissionFields.content-identifier, should be set to a
- printable string representation of the contents of it, truncated to
- MTS.ub-content-id-length (16). Both are used, due to the much larger
- upper bound of the content correlator, and that the content id is
- available in X.400(1984).
-
- 5.1.5. Mappings to the MTA Abstract Service
-
- There is a need to map directly onto some aspects of the MTA Abstract
- service, for the following reasons:
-
- - So the the MTS Message Identifier can be generated from the
-
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- RFC 822 Message-ID:.
-
- - So that the submission date can be generated from the
- 822.Date.
-
- - To prevent loss of trace information.
-
- - To prevent RFC 822/X.400 looping caused by distribution
- lists or redirects.
-
- The following mappings are defined.
-
- Message-Id:
- If this is present, the
- MTA.PerMessageTransferFields.message-identifier should be
- generated from it, using the mappings described in
- Chapter 4.
-
- Date:
- This is used to set the first component of
- MTA.PerMessageTransferFields.trace-information
- (MTA.TraceInformationElement). The 822-MTS originator
- should be mapped into an MTS.ORAddress, and used to derive
- MTA.TraceInformationElement.global-domain-identifier. The
- optional components of
- MTA.TraceInformationElement.domain-supplied-information are
- omitted, and the mandatory components are set as follows:
-
- MTA.DomainSuppliedInformation.arrival-time
- This is set to the date derived from Date:
-
- MTA.DomainSuppliedInformation.routing-action
- Set to relayed.
-
- The first element of
- MTA.PerMessageTransferFields.internal-trace-information
- should be generated in an analogous manner, although this
- may later be dropped (see the procedures for "Received:").
-
- Received:
- All RFC 822 trace is used to derive
- MTA.PerMessageTransferFields.trace-information and
- MTA.PerMessageTransferFields.internal-trace-information.
- Processing of Received: lines should follow processing of
- Date:, and should be done from the the bottom to the top of
- the RFC 822 header (i.e., in chronological order). If other
- trace elements are processed (Via:, X400-Received:), care
- should be taken to keep the relative ordering correct. The
-
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- initial element of
- MTA.PerMessageTransferFields.trace-information will be
- generated already (from Date:).
-
- Consider the Received: field in question. If the "by" part
- of the received is present, use it to derive an
- MTS.GlobalDomainIdentifier. If this is different from the
- one in the last element of
- MTA.PerMessageTransferFields.trace-information
- (MTA.TraceInformationElement.global-domain-identifier)
- create a new MTA.TraceInformationElement, and optionally
- remove
- MTA.PerMessageTransferFields.internal-trace-information.
- This removal should be done in cases where the message is
- being transferred to another MD where there is no bilateral
- agreement to preserve internal trace beyond the local MD.
- The trace creation is as for internal trace described below,
- except that no MTA field is needed.
-
- Then add a new element (MTA.InternalTraceInformationElement)
- to MTA.PerMessageTransferFields.internal-trace-information,
- creating this if needed. This shall be done, even if
- inter-MD trace is created. The
- MTA.InternalTraceInformationElement.global-domain-identifier
- should be set to the value derived. The
- MTA.InternalTraceInformationElement.mta-supplied-information
- (MTA.MTASuppliedInformation) should be set as follows:
-
- MTA.MTASuppliedInformation.arrival-time
- Derived from the date of the Received: line
-
- MTA.MTASuppliedInformation.routing-action
- Set to relayed
-
- The MTA.InternalTraceInformationElement.mta-name should be
- taken from the "by" component of the "Received:" field,
- truncated to MTS.ub-mta-name-length (32). For example:
-
- Received: from computer-science.nottingham.ac.uk by
- vs6.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK via Janet with NIFTP id aa03794;
- 28 Mar 89 16:38 GMT
-
- Generates the string:
-
- vs6.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK
-
- Note that before transferring the message to some ADMDs, additional
- trace stripping may be required, as the implied path through multiple
-
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- MDs would violate ADMD policy.
-
- Two extended fields must be mapped, in order to prevent looping.
- "DL-Expansion-History:" is mapped to
- MTA.PerMessageTransferFields.extensions.dl-expansion-history.
- "Redirection-History:" is mapped to
- MTA.PerRecipientMessageTransferFields.extensions.redirection-history.
-
- 5.1.6. Mapping New Fields
-
- This specification defines a number of new fields for Reports,
- Notifications and IP Messages in Section 5.3. As this specification
- only aims to preserve existing services, a gateway conforming to this
- specification does not need to map these fields to X.400, with the
- exception of "DL-Expansion-History" and "Redirection-History"
- described in the previous section. However, it is usually desirable
- and beneficial to do so, particularly to facilitate support of a
- message traversing multiple gateways. These mappings may be onto
- MTA, MTS, or IPMS services.
-
- 5.2. Return of Contents
-
- It is not clear how widely supported the X.400 return of contents
- service will be. Experience with X.400(1984) suggests that support
- of this service may not be universal. As this service is expected in
- the RFC 822 world, two approaches are specified. The choice will
- depend on the use of X.400 return of contents withing the X.400
- community being serviced by the gateway.
-
- In environments where return of contents is widely supported, content
- return can be requested as a service. The content return service can
- then be passed back to the end (RFC 822) user in a straightforward
- manner.
-
- In environments where return of contents is not widely supported, a
- gateway must make special provision to handle return of contents.
- For every message passing from RFC 822 -> X.400, content return
- request will not be requested, and report request always will be.
- When the delivery report comes back, the gateway can note that the
- message has been delivered to the recipient(s) in question. If a
- non-delivery report is received, a meaningful report (containing some
- or all of the original message) can be sent to the 822-MTS
- originator. If no report is received for a recipient, a (timeout)
- failure notice should be sent to the 822-MTS originator. The gateway
- may retransmit the X.400 message if it wishes. When this approach is
- taken, routing must be set up so that error reports are returned
- through the same MTA. This approach may be difficult to use in
- conjunction with some routing strategies.
-
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-
- 5.3.1. Basic Approach
-
- A single RFC 822 message is generated from the incoming IP Message,
- Report, or IP Notification. All IPMS.BodyParts are mapped onto a
- single RFC 822 body. Other services are mapped onto RFC 822 header
- fields. Where there is no appropriate existing field, new fields are
- defined for IPMS, MTS and MTA services.
-
- The gateway mechanisms will correspond to MTS Delivery. As with
- submission, there are aspects where the MTA (transfer) services are
- also used. In particular, there is an optimisation to allow for
- multiple 822-MTS recipients.
-
- 5.3.2. RFC 822 Settings
-
- An RFC 822 Service requires to have a number of mandatory fields in
- the RFC 822 Header. Some 822-MTS services mandate specification of
- an 822-MTS Originator. Even in cases where this is optional, it is
- usually desirable to specify a value. The following defaults are
- defined, which should be used if the mappings specified do not derive
- a value:
-
- 822-MTS Originator
- If this is not generated by the mapping (e.g., for a
- Delivery Report), a value pointing at a gateway
- administrator should be assigned.
-
- Date:
- A value will always be generated
-
- From:If this is not generated by the mapping, it should be
- assigned equal to the 822-MTS Originator. If this is
- gateway generated, an appropriate 822.phrase should be
- added.
-
- At least one recipient field
- If no recipient fields are generated, a field "To: list:;",
- should be added.
-
- This will ensure minimal RFC 822 compliance. When generating RFC
- 822 headers, folding should be used in an appropriate manner.
-
-
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- 5.3.3. Basic Mappings
-
- 5.3.3.1. Encoded Information Types
-
- This mapping from MTS.EncodedInformationTypes is needed in
- several disconnected places. EBNF is defined as follows:
-
- encoded-info = 1#encoded-type
-
- encoded-type = built-in-eit / object-identifier
-
- built-in-eit = "Undefined" ; undefined (0)
- / "Telex" ; tLX (1)
- / "IA5-Text" ; iA5Text (2)
- / "G3-Fax" ; g3Fax (3)
- / "TIF0" ; tIF0 (4)
- / "Teletex" ; tTX (5)
- / "Videotex" ; videotex (6)
- / "Voice" ; voice (7)
- / "SFD" ; sFD (8)
- / "TIF1" ; tIF1 (9)
-
- MTS.EncodedInformationTypes is mapped onto EBNF.encoded-info.
- MTS.EncodedInformationTypes.non-basic-parameters is ignored. Built
- in types are mapped onto fixed strings (compatible with X.400(1984)
- and RFC 987), and other types are mapped onto EBNF.object-identifier.
-
- 5.3.3.2. Global Domain Identifier
-
- The following simple EBNF is used to represent
- MTS.GlobalDomainIdentifier:
-
- global-id = std-or-address
-
- This is encoded using the std-or-address syntax, for the attributes
- within the Global Domain Identifier.
-
- 5.3.4. Mappings from the IP Message
-
- Consider that an IPM has to be mapped to RFC 822. The IPMS.IPM
- comprises an IPMS.IPM.heading and IPMS.IPM.body. The heading is
- considered first. Some EBNF for new fields is defined:
-
- ipms-field = "Obsoletes" ":" 1#msg-id
- / "Expiry-Date" ":" date-time
- / "Reply-By" ":" date-time
- / "Importance" ":" importance
- / "Sensitivity" ":" sensitivity
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- / "Autoforwarded" ":" boolean
- / "Incomplete-Copy" ":"
- / "Language" ":" language
- / "Message-Type" ":" message-type
- / "Discarded-X400-IPMS-Extensions" ":" 1#oid
-
-
-
- importance = "low" / "normal" / "high"
-
-
- sensitivity = "Personal" / "Private" /
- "Company-Confidential"
-
- language = 2*ALPHA [ language-description ]
- language-description = printable-string
-
-
- message-type = "Delivery Report"
- / "InterPersonal Notification"
- / "Multiple Part"
-
- The mappings and actions for the IPMS.Heading is now specified for
- each element. Addresses, and Message Identifiers are mapped
- according to Chapter 4. Other mappings are explained, or are
- straightforward (algorithmic).
-
- IPMS.Heading.this-IPM
- Mapped to "Message-ID:".
-
- IPMS.Heading.originator
- If IPMS.Heading.authorizing-users is present this is mapped
- to Sender:, if not to "From:".
-
- IPMS.Heading.authorizing-users
- Mapped to "From:".
-
- IPMS.Heading.primary-recipients
- Mapped to "To:".
-
- IPMS.Heading.copy-recipients
- Mapped to "Cc:".
-
- IPMS.Heading.blind-copy-recipients
- Mapped to "Bcc:".
-
- IPMS.Heading.replied-to-ipm
- Mapped to "In-Reply-To:".
-
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- IPMS.Heading.obsoleted-IPMs
- Mapped to the extended RFC 822 field "Obsoletes:"
-
- IPMS.Heading.related-IPMs
- Mapped to "References:".
-
- IPMS.Heading.subject
- Mapped to "Subject:". The contents are converted to ASCII
- (as defined in Chapter 3). Any CRLF are not mapped, but
- are used as points at which the subject field must be
- folded.
-
- IPMS.Heading.expiry-time
- Mapped to the extended RFC 822 field "Expiry-Date:".
-
- IPMS.Heading.reply-time
- Mapped to the extended RFC 822 field "Reply-By:".
-
- IPMS.Heading.reply-recipients
- Mapped to "Reply-To:".
-
- IPMS.Heading.importance
- Mapped to the extended RFC 822 field "Importance:".
-
- IPMS.Heading.sensitivity
- Mapped to the extended RFC 822 field "Sensitivity:".
-
- IPMS.Heading.autoforwarded
- Mapped to the extended RFC 822 field "Autoforwarded:".
-
- The standard extensions (Annex H of X.420 / ISO 10021-7) are mapped
- as follows:
-
- incomplete-copy
- Mapped to the extended RFC 822 field "Incomplete-Copy:".
-
- language
- Mapped to the extended RFC 822 field "Language:", filling in
- the two letter code. If possible, the language-description
- should be filled in with a human readable description of the
- language.
-
- If the RFC 822 extended header is found, this should be mapped onto
- an RFC 822 header, as described in Section 5.1.2.
-
- If a non-standard extension is found, it should be discarded, unless
- the gateway understands the extension and can perform an appropriate
- mapping onto an RFC 822 header field. If extensions are discarded,
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- the list should be indicated in the extended RFC 822 field
- "Discarded-X400-IPMS-Extensions:".
-
- The IPMS.Body is mapped into the RFC 822 message body. Each
- IPMS.BodyPart is converted to ASCII as follows:
-
- IPMS.IA5Text
- The mapping is straightforward (see Chapter 3).
-
- IPMS.MessageBodyPart
- The X.400 -> RFC 822 mapping should be recursively applied,
- to generate an RFC 822 Message. If present, the
- IPMS.MessageBodyPart.parameters.delivery-envelope should be
- used for the MTS Abstract Service Mappings. If present, the
- IPMS.MessageBodyPart.parameters.delivery-time should be
- mapped to the extended RFC 822 field "Delivery-Date:".
-
- Other
- If other body parts can be mapped to IA5, either by use of
- mappings defined in X.408 [CCITT88a], or by other reasonable
- mappings, this should be done unless content conversion is
- prohibited.
-
- If some or all of the body parts cannot be converted there are three
- options. All of these conform to this standard. A different choice
- may be made for the case where no body part can be converted:
-
- 1. The first option is to reject the message, and send a non-
- delivery notification. This must always be done if
- conversion is prohibited.
-
- 2. The second option is to map a missing body part to something
- of the style:
-
- *********************************
-
- There was a foobar here
-
- The widget gateway ate it
-
- *********************************
-
- This will allow some useful information to be transferred.
- As the recipient is a human (IPMS), then suitable action
- should be available.
-
- 3. Finally both can be done. In this case, the supplementary
- information in the (positive) Delivery Report should make
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- clear that something was sent on to the recipient with
- substantial loss of information.
-
- Where there is more than one IPMS.BodyPart, the mapping defined by
- Rose and Stefferud in [Rose85a], should be used to map the separate
- IPMS.BodyParts in the single RFC 822 message body. If this is done,
- a "Message-Type:" field with value "Multiple part" should be added,
- which will indicate to a receiving gateway that the message may be
- unfolded according to RFC 934.
-
- For backwards compatibility with RFC 987, the following procedures
- should also be followed. If there are two IA5 body parts, and the
- first starts with the string "RFC-822-Headers:" as the first line,
- then the remainder of this body part should be appended to the RFC
- 822 header.
-
- 5.3.5. Mappings from an IP Notification
-
- A message is generated, with the following fields:
-
- From:
- Set to the MTS.MessageDeliveryEnvelope.other-
- fields.originator-name.
-
- To: Set to the IPMS.IPN.ipm-originator.
-
- Subject:
- Set to something of the form "X.400 Inter-Personal Receipt
- Notification".
-
- Message-Type:
- Set to "InterPersonal Notification"
-
- References:
- Set to IPMS.IPN.subject-ipm
-
- The following EBNF is defined for the body of the Message. This
- format is defined to ensure that all information from an
- interpersonal notification is available to the end user in a uniform
- manner.
-
- ipn-body-format = ipn-description <CRLF>
- [ ipn-extra-information <CRLF> ]
- ipn-content-return
-
- ipn-description = ipn-receipt / ipn-non-receipt
-
- ipn-receipt = "Your message to:" preferred-recipient <CRLF>
-
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- "was received at" receipt-time <CRLF> <CRLF>
- "This notification was generated"
- acknowledgement-mode <CRLF>
- "The following extra information was given:" <CRLF>
- ipn-suppl <CRLF>
-
- ipn-non-receipt "Your message to:"
- preferred-recipient <CRLF>
- ipn-reason
-
-
- ipn-reason = ipn-discarded / ipn-auto-forwarded
-
- ipn-discarded = "was discarded for the following reason:"
- discard-reason <CRLF>
-
- ipn-auto-forwarded = "was automatically forwarded." <CRLF>
- [ "The following comment was made:"
- auto-comment ]
-
-
- ipn-extra-information =
- "The following information types were converted:"
- encoded-info
-
- ipn-content-return = "The Original Message is not available"
- / "The Original Message follows:"
- <CRLF> <CRLF> message
-
-
- preferred-recipient = mailbox
- receipt-time = date-time
- auto-comment = printablestring
- ipn-suppl = printablestring
-
- non-receipt-reason = "Discarded" / "Auto-Forwarded"
-
- discard-reason = "Expired" / "Obsoleted" /
- "User Subscription Terminated"
-
- acknowledgement-mode = "Manually" / "Automatically"
-
- The mappings for elements of the common fields of IPMS.IPN
- (IPMS.CommonFields) onto this structure and the message header are:
-
- subject-ipm
- Mapped to "References:"
-
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- ipm-originator
- Mapped to "To:".
-
- ipm-preferred-recipient
- Mapped to EBNF.preferred-recipient
-
- conversion-eits
- Mapped to EBNF.encoded-info in EBNF.ipn-extra-information
-
- The mappings for elements of IPMS.IPN.non-receipt-fields
- (IPMS.NonReceiptFields) are:
-
- non-receipt-reason
- Used to select between EBNF.ipn-discarded and
- EBNF.ipn-auto-forwarded
-
- discard-reason
- Mapped to EBNF.discard-reason
-
- auto-forward-comment
- Mapped to EBNF.auto-comment
-
- returned-ipm
- If present, the second option of EBNF.ipn-content-return
- should be chosen, and an RFC 822 mapping of the message
- included. Otherwise the first option should be chosen.
-
- The mappings for elements of IPMS.IPN.receipt-fields
- (IPMS.ReceiptFields) are:
-
- receipt-time
- Mapped to EBNF.receipt-time
-
- acknowledgement-mode
- Mapped to EBNF.acknowledgement-mode
-
- suppl-receipt-info
- Mapped to EBNF.ipn-suppl
-
- An example notification is:
-
- From: Steve Kille <steve@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
- To: Julian Onions <jpo@computer-science.nottingham.ac.uk>
- Subject: X400 Inter-personal Receipt Notification
- Message-Type: InterPersonal Notification
- References: <1229.614418325@UK.AC.NOTT.CS>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 89 08:45:25 +0100
-
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- Your message to: Steve Kille <steve@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
- was automatically forwarded.
- The following comment was made:
- Sent on to a random destination
-
- The following information types were converted: g3fax
-
- The Original Message is not available
-
- 5.3.6. Mappings from the MTS Abstract Service
-
- This section describes the MTS mappings for User Messages (IPM and
- IPN). This mapping is defined by specifying the mapping of
- MTS.MessageDeliveryEnvelope. The following extensions to RFC 822 are
- defined to support this mapping:
-
- mts-field = "X400-MTS-Identifier" ":" mts-msg-id
- / "X400-Originator" ":" mailbox
- / "X400-Recipients" ":" 1#mailbox
- / "Original-Encoded-Information-Types" ":"
- encoded-info
- / "X400-Content-Type" ":" mts-content-type
- / "Content-Identifier" ":" printablestring
- / "Priority" ":" priority
- / "Originator-Return-Address" ":" 1#mailbox
- / "DL-Expansion-History" ":" mailbox ";" date-time ";"
- / "Redirection-History" ":" redirection
- / "Conversion" ":" prohibition
- / "Conversion-With-Loss" ":" prohibition
- / "Requested-Delivery-Method" ":"
- 1*( labelled-integer )
- / "Delivery-Date" ":" date-time
- / "Discarded-X400-MTS-Extensions" ":"
- 1#( oid / labelled-integer )
-
-
- prohibition = "Prohibited" / "Allowed"
-
- mts-msg-id = "[" global-id ";" *text "]"
-
- mts-content-type = "P2" / labelled-integer
- / object-identifer
-
- priority = "normal" / "non-urgent" / "urgent"
-
- redirection = mailbox ";" "reason" "="
- redirection-reason
- ";" date-time
-
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- redirection-reason =
- "Recipient Assigned Alternate Recipient"
- / "Originator Requested Alternate Recipient"
- / "Recipient MD Assigned Alternate Recipient"
-
- The mappings for each element of MTS.MessageDeliveryEnvelope can
- now be considered.
-
- MTS.MessageDeliveryEnvelope.message-delivery-identifier
- Mapped to the extended RFC 822 field "X400-MTS-Identifier:".
-
- MTS.MessageDeliveryEnvelope.message-delivery-time
- Discarded, as this time will be represented in an
- appropriate trace element.
-
- The mappings for elements of
- MTS.MessageDeliveryEnvelope.other-fields
- (MTS.OtherMessageDeliveryFields) are:
-
- content-type
- Mapped to the extended RFC 822 field "X400-Content-Type:".
- The string "P2" is for backwards compatibility with RFC 987.
- If the content type is 22, then a labelled-integer encoding
- should be used.
-
- originator-name
- Mapped to the 822-MTS originator, and to the extended RFC
- 822 field "X400-Originator:". This is described in
- Section 4.6.2.
-
- original-encoded-information-types
- Mapped to the extended RFC 822 field
- "Original-Encoded-Information-Types:".
-
- priority
- Mapped to the extended RFC 822 field "Priority:".
-
- delivery-flags
- If the conversion-prohibited bit is set, add an extended RFC
- 822 field "Conversion:".
-
- this-recipient-name and other-recipient-names
- These fields are used together, to generate the extended RFC
- 822 field "X400-Recipients:". Note that the latter will
- only be present if disclosure of recipients is allowed.
-
- originally-intended-recipient-name
- Mapped to a comment associated with the recipient in
-
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- question, as described in Section 4.6.2.2.
-
- converted-encoded-information-types
- Discarded, as it will always be IA5 only.
-
- message-submission-time
- Mapped to Date:.
-
- content-identifier
- Mapped to the extended RFC 822 field "Content-Identifier:".
-
- If any extensions
- (MTS.MessageDeliveryEnvelope.other-fields.extensions) are
- present, and they are marked as critical for transfer or
- delivery, then the message should be rejected. The extensions
- (MTS.MessageDeliveryEnvelope.other-fields.extensions) are mapped
- as follows.
-
- conversion-with-loss-prohibited
- If set to
- MTS.ConversionWithLossProhibited.conversion-with-loss-prohibited,
- then add the extended RFC 822 field "Conversion-With-Loss:".
-
- requested-delivery-method
- Mapped to the extended RFC 822 field
- "Requested-Delivery-Method:".
-
- originator-return-address
- Mapped to the extended RFC 822 field
- "Originator-Return-Address:".
-
- physical-forwarding-address-request
- physical-delivery-modes
- registered-mail-type
- recipient-number-for-advice
- physical-rendition-attributes
- physical-delivery-report-request
- physical-forwarding-prohibited
-
- These elements are only appropriate for physical delivery. They
- are represented as comments in the "X400-Recipients:" field, as
- described in Section 4.6.2.2.
-
- originator-certificate
- message-token
- content-confidentiality-algorithm-identifier
- content-integrity-check
- message-origin-authentication-check
-
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- message-security-label
- proof-of-delivery-request
-
- These elements imply use of security services not available in the
- RFC 822 environment. If they are marked as critical for transfer
- or delivery, then the message should be rejected. Otherwise they
- should be discarded.
-
- redirection-history
- Each element is mapped to an extended RFC 822 field
- "Redirection-History:". They should be ordered in the
- message header, so that the most recent redirection comes
- first (same order as trace).
-
- dl-expansion-history
- Each element is mapped to the extended RFC 822 field
- "DL-Expansion-History:". They should be ordered in the
- message header, so that the most recent expansion comes
- first (same order as trace).
-
- If any MTS (or MTA) Extensions not specified in X.400 are present,
- and they are marked as critical for transfer or delivery, then the
- message should be rejected. If they are not so marked, they can
- safely be discarded. The list of discarded fields should be
- indicated in the extended header "Discarded-X400-MTS-Extensions:".
-
- 5.3.7. Mappings from the MTA Abstract Service
-
- There are some mappings at the MTA Abstract Service level which are
- done for IPM and IPN. These can be derived from
- MTA.MessageTransferEnvelope. The reasons for the mappings at this
- level, and the violation of layering are:
-
- - Allowing for multiple recipients to share a single RFC 822
- message.
-
- - Making the X.400 trace information available on the RFC 822
- side.
-
- - Making any information on deferred delivery available.
-
- The 822-MTS recipients should be calculated from the full list of
- X.400 recipients. This is all of the members of
- MTA.MessageTransferEnvelope.per-recipient-fields being passed
- through the gateway, where the responsibility bit is set. In
- some cases, a different RFC 822 message would be calculated for
- each recipient. If this is due to differing service requests for
- each recipient, then a different message should be generated.
-
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-
- If it is due only to the request for non-disclosure of
- recipients, then the "X400-Recipients:" field should be omitted,
- and only one message sent.
-
- The following EBNF is defined for extended RFC 822 headers:
-
- mta-field = "X400-Received" ":" x400-trace
- / "Deferred-Delivery" ":" date-time
- / "Latest-Delivery-Time" ":" date-time
-
-
- x400-trace = "by" md-and-mta ";"
- [ "deferred until" date-time ";" ]
- [ "converted" "(" encoded-info ")" ";" ]
- [ "attempted" md-and-mta ";" ]
- action-list
- ";" arrival-time
-
-
- md-and-mta = [ "mta" mta "in" ] global-id
- mta = word
- arrival-time = date-time
-
-
- action-list = 1#action
- action = "Redirected"
- / "Expanded"
- / "Relayed"
- / "Rerouted"
-
- If MTA.PerMessageTransferFields.deferred-delivery-time is present,
- use it to generate a Deferred-Delivery: field. For some reason,
- X.400 does not make this information available at the MTS level on
- delivery. X.400 profiles, and in particular the CEN/CENELEC profile
- for X.400(1984) [Systems85a], specify that this element must be
- supported at the first MTA. If it is not, the function may
- optionally be implemented by the gateway: that is, the gateway should
- hold the message until the time specified in the protocol element.
- Thus, it is expected that the value of this element will often be in
- the past. For this reason, the extended RFC 822 field is primarily
- for information.
-
- Merge MTA.PerMessageTransferFields.trace-information, and
- MTA.PerMessageTransferFields.internal-trace-information to produce a
- single ordered trace list. If Internal trace from other management
- domains has not been stripped, this may require complex interleaving.
- Use this to generate a sequence of "X400-Received:" fields. The only
- difference between external trace and internal trace will be the
-
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- extra MTA information in internal trace elements.
-
- When generating an RFC 822 message all trace fields (X400- Received
- and Received) should be at the beginning of the header, before any
- other fields. Trace should be in chronological order, with the most
- recent element at the front of the message. A simple example trace
- (external) is:
-
- X400-Received: by /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD=Gold 400/C=GB/ ; Relayed ;
- Tue, 20 Jun 89 19:25:11 +0100
-
- A more complex example (internal):
-
- X400-Received: by mta UK.AC.UCL.CS in
- /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD=Gold 400/C=GB/ ;
- deferred until Tue, 20 Jun 89 14:24:22 +0100 ;
- converted (undefined, g3fax) ";" attempted /ADMD=Foo/C=GB/ ;
- Relayed, Expanded, Redirected ; Tue, 20 Jun 89 19:25:11 +0100
-
- 5.3.8. Mappings from Report Delivery
-
- Delivery reports are mapped at the MTS service level. This means
- that only reports destined for the MTS user will be mapped. Some
- additional services are also taken from the MTA service.
-
- 5.3.8.1. MTS Mappings
-
- A Delivery Report service will be represented as
- MTS.ReportDeliveryEnvelope, which comprises of per-report-fields
- (MTS.PerReportDeliveryFields) and per-recipient-fields.
-
- A message should be generated with the following fields:
-
- From:
- An administrator at the gateway system. This is also the
- 822-MTS originator.
-
- To: A mapping of the
- MTA.ReportTransferEnvelope.report-destination-name. This is
- also the 822-MTS recipient.
-
- Message-Type:
- Set to "Delivery Report".
-
- Subject:
- Something of the form "X.400 Delivery Report".
-
- The format of the body of the message is defined to ensure that all
-
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- information is conveyed to the RFC 822 user in a consistent manner.
- This gives a summary of critical information, and then a full listing
- of all parameters:
-
-
- dr-body-format = dr-summary <CRLF>
- dr-recipients <CRLF>
- dr-extra-information <CRLF>
- dr-content-return
-
-
- dr-content-return = "The Original Message is not available"
- / "The Original Message follows:"
- <CRLF> <CRLF> message
-
- dr-summary = "This report relates to your message:" <CRLF>
- content-correlator <CRLF> <CRLF>
- "of" date-time <CRLF> <CRLF>
- "It was generated by:" report-point <CRLF>
- "at" date-time <CRLF> <CRLF>
- "It was later converted to RFC 822 by:" mailbox <CRLF>
- "at" date-time <CRLF> <CRLF>
-
-
- dr-recipients = *(dr-recipient <CRLF> <CRLF>)
-
- dr-recipient = dr-recip-success / dr-recip-failure
-
- dr-recip-success =
- "Your message was successfully delivered to:"
- mailbox "at" date-time
-
- dr-recip-failure = "Your message was not delivered to:"
- mailbox <CRLF>
- "for the following reason:" *word
-
-
- dr-extra-information =
- "-----------------------------------------------" <CRLF> <CRLF>
- "The following information is derived from the Report" <CRLF>
- "It may be useful for problem diagnosis:" <CRLF> <CRLF>
- drc-field-list
-
- drc-field-list = *(drc-field <CRLF>)
-
- drc-field = "Subject-Submission-Identifier" ":"
- mts-msg-id
- / "Content-Identifier" ":" printablestring
-
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- / "Content-Type" ":" mts-content-type
- / "Original-Encoded-Information-Types" ":"
- encoded-info
- / "Originator-and-DL-Expansion-History" ":"
- dl-history
- / "Reporting-DL-Name" ":" mailbox
- / "Content-Correlator" ":" content-correlator
- / "Recipient-Info" ":" recipient-info
- / "Subject-Intermediate-Trace-Information" ":"
- x400-trace
-
-
- recipient-info = mailbox "," std-or ";"
- report-type
- [ "converted eits" encoded-info ";" ]
- [ "originally intended recipient"
- mailbox "," std-or ";" ]
- [ "last trace" [ encoded-info ] date-time ";" ]
- [ "supplementary info" <"> printablestring <"> ";" ]
- [ "redirection history" 1#redirection ";"
- [ "physical forwarding address"
- printablestring ";" ]
-
-
- report-type = "SUCCESS" drc-success
- / "FAILURE" drc-failure
-
- drc-success = "delivered at" date-time ";"
- [ "type of MTS user" labelled-integer ";" ]
-
- drc-failure = "reason" labelled-integer ";"
- [ "diagnostic" labelled-integer ";" ]
-
- report-point = [ "mta" word "in" ] global-id
- content-correlator = *word
- dl-history = 1#( mailbox "(" date-time ")")
-
- The format is defined as a fixed definition. The only exception is
- that the EBNF.drc-fields should follow RFC 822 folding rules.
-
- The elements of MTS.ReportDeliveryEnvelope.per-report-fields are
- mapped as follows onto extended RFC 822 fields:
-
- subject-submission-identifier
- Mapped to EBNF.drc-field (Subject-Submission-Identifier)
-
- content-identifier
- Mapped to EBNF.drc-field (Content-Identifier)
-
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- content-type
- Mapped to EBNF.drc-field (Content-Type)
-
- original-encoded-information-types
- Mapped to EBNF.drc-field (Encoded-Info)
-
- The extensions from
- MTS.ReportDeliveryEnvelope.per-report-fields.extensions are
- mapped as follows:
-
- originator-and-DL-expansion-history
- Mapped to EBNF.drc-field (Originator-and-DL-Expansion-
- History)
-
- reporting-DL-name
- Mapped to EBNF.drc-field (Reporting-DL-Name)
-
- content-correlator
- Mapped to EBNF.content-correlator, provided that the
- encoding is IA5String (this should always be the case).
- This is used in EBNF.dr-summary and EBNF.drc-field-list.
- In the former, LWSP may be added, in order to improve the
- layout of the message.
-
- message-security-label
- reporting-MTA-certificate
- report-origin-authentication-check
-
- These security parameters should not be present. If they are,
- they should be discarded in preference to discarding the whole
- report.
-
- For each element of MTS.ReportDeliveryEnvelope.per-recipient-fields,
- a value of EBNF.dr-recipient, and an EBNF.drc-field (Recipient-Info)
- should be generated. The components are mapped as follows.
-
- actual-recipient-name
- Used to generate the first EBNF.mailbox and EBNF.std-or in
- EBNF.recipient-info. Both RFC 822 and X.400 forms are
- given, as there may be a problem in the mapping tables. It
- also generates the EBNF.mailbox in EBNF.dr-recip-success or
- EBNF.dr-recip-failure.
-
- report
- If it is MTS.Report.delivery, then set EBNF.dr-recipient to
- EBNF.dr-recip-success, and similarly set EBNF.report-type,
- filling in EBNF.drc-success. If it is a failure, set
- EBNF.dr-recipient to EBNF.dr-recip-failure, making a human
-
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- interpretation of the reason and diagnostic codes, and
- including any supplementary information. EBNF.drc-failure
- should be filled in systematically.
-
- converted-encoded-information-types
- Set EBNF.drc-field ("converted eits")
-
- originally-intended-recipient
- Set the second ("originally intended recipient") mailbox
-
- and
-
- std-or in EBNF.drc-field.
-
- supplementary-info
- Set EBNF.drc-field ("supplementary info"), and include this
- information in EBNF.dr-recip-failure.
-
- redirection-history
- Set EBNF.drc-field ("redirection history")
-
- physical-forwarding-address
- Set ENBF.drc-field ("physical forwarding address")
-
- recipient-certificate
- Discard
-
- proof-of-delivery
- Discard
-
- Any unknown extensions should be discarded, irrespective of
- criticality.
-
- The original message should be included in the delivery port. The
- original message will usually be available at the gateway, as
- discussed in Section 5.2.
-
- 5.3.8.2. MTA Mappings
-
- The single 822-MTS recipient is constructed from
- MTA.ReportTransferEnvelope.report-destination-name, using the
- mappings of Chapter 4. Unlike with a user message, this information
- is not available at the MTS level.
-
- The following additional mappings should be made:
-
- MTA.ReportTransferEnvelope.report-destination-name
- This should be used to generate the To: field.
-
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- MTA.ReportTransferEnvelope.identifier
- Mapped to the extended RFC 822 field "X400-MTS-Identifier:".
- It may also be used to derive a "Message-Id:" field.
-
- MTA.ReportTransferEnvelope.trace-information
- and
-
- MTA.ReportTransferEnvelope.internal-trace-information
- Mapped onto the extended RFC 822 field "X400-Received:", as
- described in Section 5.3.7. The first element should also
- be used to generate the "Date:" field, and the
- EBNF.failure-point.
-
- MTA.PerRecipientReportTransferFields.last-trace-information
- Mapped to EBNF.recipient-info (last trace)
- MTA.PerReportTransferFields.subject-intermediate-trace-information
- Mapped to EBNF.drc-field (subject-Intermediate-Trace-Information).
- These fields should be ordered so that the most recent trace element
- comes first.
-
- 5.3.8.3. Example Delivery Report
-
- This is an example, of a moderately complex report.
-
- From: The Postmaster <postmaster@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
- To: jpo@computer-science.nottingham.ac.uk
- Subject: X.400 Delivery Report
- Message-Type: Delivery Report
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 89 08:45:25 +0100
- X400-MTS-Identifier: /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD=Gold 400/C=GB/;13412345235
-
- This report relates to your message:
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 89 06:15:43 +0000
- Message-ID: <8907140715.aa09015@CS.Nott.AC.UK>
- Subject: Now it's the fine tuning .... !
- To: Piete Brooks (Postmaster) <pb@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.uk>
-
- of Wed, 21 Jun 89 06:15:43 +0000
-
- It was generated by mta PK in /PRMD=UK/ADMD=DBP/C=DE/
- at Wed, 21 Jun 89 08:45:25 +0100
-
- It was later converted to RFC 822 by: Mail-Gateway@oxbridge.ac.uk
- at Wed, 21 Jun 89 08:45:26 +0100
-
- Your message was not delivered to: bad-user@nowhere
- for the following reason: Rendition problem with punctuation
- (Umlaut failure)
-
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- -----------------------------------------------
-
- The following information is derived from the Report
- It may be useful for problem diagnosis:
-
- Subject-Submission-Identifier:
- [/PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD=Gold 400/C=GB/;148996]
- Content-Identifier: X.400 Delivery Report
- Content-Type: P2-1988 (22)
- Original-Encoded-Information-Types: ia5
- Content-Correlator: Date: Wed, 21 Jun 89 06:15:43 +0000
- Message-ID: <8907140715.aa09015@CS.Nott.AC.UK>
- Subject: Now it's the fine tuning .... !
- To: Piete Brooks (Postmaster) <pb@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.uk>
- Recipient-Info:
- bad-user@nowhere, /S=bad-user/PRMD=nowhere/ADMD=DBP/C=DE/ ;
- FAILURE reason Physical-Rendition-Not-Performed (3) ;
- diagnostic Punctuation-Symbol-Loss (23) ;
- supplementary info Umlaut failure
-
- The Original Message follows:
-
- Subject: Now it's the fine tuning .... !
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 89 06:15:43 +0000
- From: Julian Onions <jpo@computer-science.nottingham.ac.uk>
- To: Piete Brooks (Postmaster) <pb@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.uk>
- Cc: bad-user@nowhere
- Message-ID: <8907140715.aa09015@CS.Nott.AC.UK>
-
- A short test
-
- 5.3.9. Probe
-
- This is an MTS internal issue. Any probe should be serviced by the
- gateway, as there is no equivalent RFC 822 functionality. The value
- of the reply is dependent on whether the gateway could service an MTS
- Message with the values specified in the probe. The reply should
- make use of MTS.SupplementaryInformation to indicate that the probe
- was serviced by the gateway.
-
- Appendix A - Differences with RFC 987
-
- This appendix summarises changes between this document and RFC
- 987/RFC 1026.
-
- 1. Introduction
-
- The model has shifted from a protocol based mapping to a service
-
-
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-
- based mapping. This has increased the generality of the
- specification, and improved the model. This change affects the
- entire document.
-
- A restriction on scope has been added.
-
- 2. Service Elements
-
- - The new service elements of X.400 are dealt with.
-
- - A clear distinction is made between origination and
- reception.
-
- 3. Basic Mappings
-
- - Add teletex support.
-
- - Add object identifier support.
-
- - Add labelled integer support.
-
- - Make PrintableString <-> ASCII mapping reversible.
-
- - The printable string mapping is aligned to the NBS mapping
- derived from RFC 987.
-
- 4. Addressing
-
- - Support for new addressing attributes.
-
- - The message ID mapping is changed to not be table driven.
-
- 5. Detailed Mappings
-
- - Define extended IPM Header, and use instead of second body
- part for RFC 822 extensions.
-
- - Realignment of element names.
-
- - New syntax for reports, simplifying the header and
- introducing a mandatory body format (the RFC 987 header
- format was unusable).
-
- - Drop complex autoforwarded mapping.
-
- - Add full mapping for IP Notifications, defining a body
- format.
-
-
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-
- - Adopt an MTS Identifier syntax in line with the O/R Address
- syntax.
-
- - A new format for X400 Trace representation on the RFC 822
- side.
-
- 6. Appendices
-
- - Move Appendix on restricted 822 mappings to a separate RFC.
-
- - Delete Phonenet and SMTP Appendixes.
-
- Appendix B - Mappings specific to the JNT Mail
-
- This Appendix is specific to the JNT Mail Protocol. It describes
- specific changes in the context of this protocol.
-
- 1. Introduction
-
- There are five aspects of a gateway which are JNT Mail Specific.
- These are each given a section of this appendix.
-
- 2. Domain Ordering
-
- When interpreting and generating domains, the UK NRS domain ordering
- must be used.
-
- 3. Acknowledge-To:
-
- This field has no direct functional equivalent in X.400. However, it
- can be supported to an extent, and can be used to improve X.400
- support.
-
- If an Acknowledge-To: field is present when going from JNT Mail to
- X.400, MTS.PerRecipientSubmissionFields.originator-request-
- report.report shall be set for each recipient. If there is more that
- one address in the Acknowledge-To: field, or if the one address is
- not equivalent to the 822-MTS return address, then:
-
- 1. Acknowledgement(s) should be generated by the gateway. The
- text of these acknowledgements should indicate that they are
- generated by the gateway.
-
- 2. The Acknowledge-To: field should also be passed as an
- extension heading.
-
- When going from X.400 to JNT Mail, in cases where
- MTA.PerRecipientMessageTransferFields.per-recipient-indicators.
-
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- originator-report is set, the copy of the message to that recipient
- should have an Acknowledge-To: field containing the
- MTS.OtherMessageDeliveryFields.originator-name. No special treatment
- should be given when MTA.PerRecipientMessageTransferFields.per-
- recipient-indicators. originating-MTA-report is set. No attempt
- should be made to map Receipt notification requests onto
- Acknowledge-To:, as no association can be guaranteed between IPMS and
- MTS level addressing information.
-
- 4. Trace
-
- JNT Mail trace uses the Via: syntax. When going from JNT Mail to
- X.400, a mapping similar to that for Received: is used. No
- MTS.GlobalDomainIdentifier of the site making the trace can be
- derived from the Via:, so a value for the gateway should be used.
- The trace text, including the "Via:", should be unfolded, truncated
- to MTS.ub-mta-name-length (32), and mapped to
- MTA.InternalTraceInformationElement.mta-name. There is no JNT Mail
- specific mapping for the reverse direction.
-
- 5. Timezone specification
-
- The extended syntax of zone defined in the JNT Mail Protocol should
- be used in the mapping of UTCTime defined in Chapter 3.
-
- 6. Lack of 822-MTS originator specification
-
- In JNT Mail the default mapping of the
- MTS.OtherMessageDeliveryFields.originator-name is to the Sender:
- field. This can cause a problem when going from X.400 to JNT Mail if
- the mapping of IPMS.Heading has already generated a Sender: field.
- To overcome this, new extended JNT Mail field is defined. This is
- chosen to align with the JNT recommendation for interworking with
- full RFC 822 systems [Kille84b].
-
- original-sender = "Original-Sender" ":" mailbox
-
- If an IPM has no IPMS.Heading.authorising-users component and
- IPMS.Heading.originator.formal-name is different from
- MTS.OtherMessageDeliveryFields.originator-name, map
- MTS.OtherMessageDeliveryFields.originator-name, onto the Sender:
- field.
-
- If an IPM has a IPMS.Heading.authorising-users component, and
- IPMS.Heading.originator.formal-name is different from
- MTS.OtherMessageDeliveryFields.originator-name,
- MTS.OtherMessageDeliveryFields.originator-name should be mapped onto
- the Sender: field, and IPMS.Heading.originator mapped onto the
-
-
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- Original-Sender: field.
-
- In other cases the MTS.OtherMessageDeliveryFields.originator-name, is
- already correctly represented.
-
- Appendix C - Mappings specific to UUCP Mail
-
- Gatewaying of UUCP and X.400 is handled by first gatewaying the UUCP
- address into RFC 822 syntax (using RFC 976) and then gatewaying the
- resulting RFC 822 address into X.400. For example, an X.400 address:
-
- Country US
- Organisation Xerox
- Personal Name John Smith
-
- might be expressed from UUCP as
-
- inthop!gate!gatehost.COM!/C=US/O=Xerox/PN=John.Smith/
-
- (assuming gate is a UUCP-Internet gateway and gatehost.COM is an
- Internet-X.400 gateway) or
-
- inthop!gate!Xerox.COM!John.Smith
-
- (assuming that Xerox.COM and /C=US/O=Xerox/ are equivalent.)
-
- In the other direction, a UUCP address Smith@ATT.COM, integrated into
- 822, would be handled as any other 822 address. A non-integrated
- address such as inthop!dest!user might be handled through a pair of
- gateways:
-
- Country US
- ADMD ATT
- PRMD Internet
- Organisation GateOrg
- RFC-822 inthop!dest!user@gatehost.COM
-
- or through a single X.400 to UUCP gateway:
-
- Country US
- ADMD ATT
- PRMD UUCP
- Organisation GateOrg
- RFC-822 inthop!dest!user
-
- Appendix D - Object Identifier Assignment
-
- An object identifier is needed for the extension IPMS element. The
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- following value should be used.
-
- rfc-987-88 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::=
- {ccitt data(9) pss(2342) ucl(234219200300) rfc-987-88(200)}
-
- id-rfc-822-field OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {rfc987-88 field(0)}
-
- Appendix E - BNF Summary
-
- boolean = "TRUE" / "FALSE"
-
-
- numericstring = *DIGIT
-
-
- printablestring = *( ps-char )
- ps-restricted-char = 1DIGIT / 1ALPHA / " " / "'" / "+"
- / "," / "-" / "." / "/" / ":" / "=" / "?"
- ps-delim = "(" / ")"
- ps-char = ps-delim / ps-restricted-char
-
-
- ps-encoded = *( ps-restricted-char / ps-encoded-char )
- ps-encoded-char = "(a)" ; (@)
- / "(p)" ; (%)
- / "(b)" ; (!)
- / "(q)" ; (")
- / "(u)" ; (_)
- / "(l)" ; "("
- / "(r)" ; ")"
- / "(" 3DIGIT ")"
-
-
- teletex-string = *( ps-char / t61-encoded )
- t61-encoded = "{" 1* t61-encoded-char "}"
- t61-encoded-char = 3DIGIT
-
-
- teletex-and-or-ps = [ printablestring ] [ "*" teletex-string ]
-
-
- labelled-integer ::= [ key-string ] "(" numericstring ")"
-
- key-string = *key-char
- key-char = <a-z, A-Z, 1-9, and "-">
-
-
- object-identifier ::= [ defined-value ] oid-comp-list
-
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- oid-comp-list ::= oid-comp oid-comp-list
- | oid-comp
-
- defined-value ::= key-string
-
- oid-comp ::= [ key-string ] "(" numericstring ")"
-
-
- encoded-info = 1#encoded-type
-
- encoded-type = built-in-eit / object-identifier
-
- built-in-eit = "Undefined" ; undefined (0)
- / "Telex" ; tLX (1)
- / "IA5-Text" ; iA5Text (2)
- / "G3-Fax" ; g3Fax (3)
- / "TIF0" ; tIF0 (4)
- / "Teletex" ; tTX (5)
- / "Videotex" ; videotex (6)
- / "Voice" ; voice (7)
- / "SFD" ; sFD (8)
- / "TIF1" ; tIF1 (9)
-
-
- encoded-pn = [ given "." ] *( initial "." ) surname
-
- given = 2*<ps-char not including ".">
-
- initial = ALPHA
-
- surname = printablestring
-
-
- std-or-address = 1*( "/" attribute "=" value ) "/"
- attribute = standard-type
- / "RFC-822"
- / registered-dd-type
- / dd-key "." std-printablestring
- standard-type = key-string
-
- registered-dd-type
- = key-string
- dd-key = key-string
-
- value = std-printablestring
-
- std-printablestring
- = *( std-char / std-pair )
-
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- std-char = <"{", "}", "*", and any ps-char
- except "/" and "=">
- std-pair = "$" ps-char
-
-
- dmn-or-address = dmn-part *( "." dmn-part )
- dmn-part = attribute "$" value
- attribute = standard-type
- / "~" dmn-printablestring
- value = dmn-printablestring
- / "@"
- dmn-printablestring =
- = *( dmn-char / dmn-pair )
- dmn-char = <"{", "}", "*", and any ps-char
- except ".">
- dmn-pair = "."
-
-
- global-id = std-or-address
-
-
- mta-field = "X400-Received" ":" x400-trace
- / "Deferred-Delivery" ":" date-time
- / "Latest-Delivery-Time" ":" date-time
-
-
- x400-trace = "by" md-and-mta ";"
- [ "deferred until" date-time ";" ]
- [ "converted" "(" encoded-info ")" ";" ]
- [ "attempted" md-and-mta ";" ]
- action-list
- ";" arrival-time
-
-
- md-and-mta = [ "mta" mta "in" ] global-id
- mta = word
- arrival-time = date-time
-
-
- action-list = 1#action
- action = "Redirected"
- / "Expanded"
- / "Relayed"
- / "Rerouted"
-
-
- dr-body-format = dr-summary <CRLF>
- dr-recipients <CRLF>
-
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- dr-extra-information <CRLF>
- dr-content-return
-
-
- dr-content-return = "The Original Message is not available"
- / "The Original Message follows:"
- <CRLF> <CRLF> message
-
- dr-summary = "This report relates to your message:" <CRLF>
- content-correlator <CRLF> <CRLF>
- "of" date-time <CRLF> <CRLF>
- "It was generated by:" report-point <CRLF>
- "at" date-time <CRLF> <CRLF>
- "It was later converted to RFC 822 by:" mailbox <CRLF>
- "at" date-time <CRLF> <CRLF>
-
-
- dr-recipients = *(dr-recipient <CRLF> <CRLF>)
-
- dr-recipient = dr-recip-success / dr-recip-failure
-
- dr-recip-success =
- "Your message was successfully delivered to:"
- mailbox "at" date-time
-
-
- dr-recip-failure = "Your message was not delivered to:"
- mailbox <CRLF>
- "for the following reason:" *word
-
-
- dr-extra-information =
- "-----------------------------------------------" <CRLF> <CRLF>
- "The following information is derived from the Report" <CRLF>
-
- "It may be useful for problem diagnosis:" <CRLF> <CRLF>
- drc-field-list
-
- drc-field-list = *(drc-field <CRLF>)
-
- drc-field = "Subject-Submission-Identifier" ":"
- mts-msg-id
- / "Content-Identifier" ":" printablestring
- / "Content-Type" ":" mts-content-type
- / "Original-Encoded-Information-Types" ":"
- encoded-info
- / "Originator-and-DL-Expansion-History" ":"
- dl-history
-
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- / "Reporting-DL-Name" ":" mailbox
- / "Content-Correlator" ":" content-correlator
- / "Recipient-Info" ":" recipient-info
-
-
- recipient-info = mailbox "," std-or ";"
- report-type
- [ "converted eits" encoded-info ";" ]
- [ "originally intended recipient"
- mailbox "," std-or ";" ]
- [ "supplementary info" <"> printablestring <"> ";" ]
- [ "redirection history" 1#redirection ";"
- [ "physical forwarding address"
- printablestring ";" ]
-
-
- report-type = "SUCCESS" drc-success
- / "FAILURE" drc-failure
-
- drc-success = "delivered at" date-time ";"
- [ "type of MTS user" labelled-integer ";" ]
-
- drc-failure = "reason" labelled-integer ";"
- [ "diagnostic" labelled-integer ";" ]
-
-
- report-point = [ "mta" word "in" ] global-id
- content-correlator = *word
- dl-history = 1#( mailbox "(" date-time ")")
-
-
- mts-field = "X400-MTS-Identifier" ":" mts-msg-id
- / "X400-Originator" ":" mailbox
- / "X400-Recipients" ":" 1#mailbox
- / "Original-Encoded-Information-Types" ":"
-
- encoded-info
- / "X400-Content-Type" ":" mts-content-type
- / "Content-Identifier" ":" printablestring
- / "Priority" ":" priority
- / "Originator-Return-Address" ":" 1#mailbox
- / "DL-Expansion-History" ":" mailbox ";" date-time ";"
- / "Redirection-History" ":" redirection
- / "Conversion" ":" prohibition
- / "Conversion-With-Loss" ":" prohibition
- / "Requested-Delivery-Method" ":"
- 1*( labelled-integer )
- / "Delivery-Date" ":" date-time
-
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- / "Discarded-X400-MTS-Extensions" ":"
- 1#( oid / labelled-integer )
-
-
- prohibition = "Prohibited" / "Allowed"
-
- mts-msg-id = "[" global-id ";" *text "]"
-
- mts-content-type = "P2" / labelled-integer
- / object-identifer
-
- priority = "normal" / "non-urgent" / "urgent"
-
- redirection = mailbox ";" "reason" "="
- redirection-reason
- ";" date-time
- redirection-reason =
- "Recipient Assigned Alternate Recipient"
- / "Originator Requested Alternate Recipient"
- / "Recipient MD Assigned Alternate Recipient"
-
-
- ipn-body-format = ipn-description <CRLF>
- [ ipn-extra-information <CRLF> ]
- ipn-content-return
-
- ipn-description = ipn-receipt / ipn-non-receipt
-
- ipn-receipt = "Your message to:" preferred-recipient <CRLF>
- "was received at" receipt-time <CRLF> <CRLF>
- "This notification was generated"
- acknowledgement-mode <CRLF>
- "The following extra information was given:" <CRLF>
- ipn-suppl <CRLF>
-
- ipn-non-receipt "Your message to:"
-
- preferred-recipient <CRLF>
- ipn-reason
-
-
- ipn-reason = ipn-discarded / ipn-auto-forwarded
-
- ipn-discarded = "was discarded for the following reason:"
- discard-reason <CRLF>
-
- ipn-auto-forwarded = "was automatically forwarded." <CRLF>
- [ "The following comment was made:"
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- auto-comment ]
-
-
- ipn-extra-information =
- "The following information types were converted:"
- encoded-info
-
- ipn-content-return = "The Original Message is not available"
- / "The Original Message follows:"
- <CRLF> <CRLF> message
-
-
- preferred-recipient = mailbox
- receipt-time = date-time
- auto-comment = printablestring
- ipn-suppl = printablestring
-
-
- non-receipt-reason = "Discarded" / "Auto-Forwarded"
-
- discard-reason = "Expired" / "Obsoleted" /
- "User Subscription Terminated"
-
- acknowledgement-mode = "Manually" / "Automatically"
-
-
- ms-field = "Obsoletes" ":" 1#msg-id
- / "Expiry-Date" ":" date-time
- / "Reply-By" ":" date-time
- / "Importance" ":" importance
- / "Sensitivity" ":" sensitivity
- / "Autoforwarded" ":" boolean
- / "Incomplete-Copy" ":"
- / "Language" ":" language
- / "Message-Type" ":" message-type
- / "Discarded-X400-IPMS-Extensions" ":" 1#oid
-
- importance = "low" / "normal" / "high"
-
-
- sensitivity = "Personal" / "Private" /
- "Company-Confidential"
-
- language = 2*ALPHA [ language-description ]
- language-description = printable-string
-
-
- message-type = "Delivery Report"
-
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- / "InterPersonal Notification"
- / "Multiple Part"
-
-
- Appendix F - Format of address mapping tables
-
- There is a need to specify the association between the domain and
- X.400 namespaces described in Chapter 4. The use of this association
- leads to a better service on both sides of the gateway, and so
- defining mappings and distributing them in the form defined in this
- appendix is strongly encouraged.
-
- This syntax defined is initially in table form, but the syntax is
- defined in a manner which makes it suitable for use with domain
- nameservices (such as the Internet Domain nameservers or the UK NRS).
- The mapping is not symmetric, and so a separate table is specified
- for each direction. If multiple matches are possible, the longest
- possible match should be used.
-
- First, an address syntax is defined, which is compatible with the
- syntax used for 822.domains. It is intended that this syntax may be
- used in conjunction with systems which support this form of name.
-
- To allow the mapping of null attributes to be represented, the
- pseudo-value "@" (not a printable string character) is used to
- indicate omission of a level in the hierarchy. This is distinct from
- the form including the element with no value, although a correct
- X.400 implementation will interpret both in the same manner.
-
- This syntax is not intended to be handled by users.
-
- dmn-or-address = dmn-part *( "." dmn-part )
- dmn-part = attribute "$" value
- attribute = standard-type
- / "~" dmn-printablestring
- value = dmn-printablestring
- / "@"
-
- dmn-printablestring =
- = *( dmn-char / dmn-pair )
- dmn-char = <"{", "}", "*", and any ps-char
- except ".">
- dmn-pair = "."
-
- An example usage:
-
- ~ROLE$Big.Chief.ADMD$ATT.C$US
- PRMD$DEC.ADMD$@.C$US
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- The first example illustrates quoting of a ".", and the second
- omission of the ADMD level.
-
- Various further restrictions are placed on the usage of dmn-or-
- address:
-
- 1. Only C, ADMD, PRMD, O, and OU may be used.
-
- 2. There must be a strict ordering of all components, with the
- most significant components on the RHS.
-
- 3. No components may be omitted from the hierarchy, although
- the hierarchy may terminate at any level. If the mapping is
- to an omitted component, the "@" syntax is used.
-
- For domain -> X.400:
-
- domain-syntax "#" dmn-or-address "#"
-
- Note that the trailing "#" is used for clarity, as the dmn-or-
- address syntax can lead to values with trailing blanks. Lines
- staring with "#" are comments.
-
- For example:
-
- AC.UK#PRMD$UK.AC.ADMD$GOLD 400.C$GB#
- XEROX.COM#O$Xerox.ADMD$ATT.C$US#
- GMD.DE#O$@.PRMD$GMD.ADMD$DBP.C$DE#
-
- For X.400 -> domain:
-
- dmn-or-address "#" domain-syntax "#"
-
- For example:
-
- #
- # Mapping table
- #
- PRMD$UK.AC.ADMD$GOLD 400.C$GB#AC.UK#
-
- References
-
- [Braden89a] Braden, R., Editor, "Requirements for Internet Hosts --
- Application and Support", RFC 1123, USC/Information Sciences
- Institute, October 1989.
-
- [CCITT88a] CCITT, "CCITT Recommendations X.408", Message Handling
- Systems: Encoded Information Type Conversion Rules, CCITT, December
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- 1988.
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- [CCITT/ISO88a] CCITT/ISO, "CCITT Recommendations X.400/ ISO IS
- 10021-1", Message Handling: System and Service Overview, CCITT/ISO,
- December 1988.
-
- [CCITT/ISO88b] CCITT/ISO, "CCITT Recommendations X.420/ ISO IS
- 10021-7", Message Handling Systems: Interpersonal Messaging System,
- CCITT/ISO, December 1988.
-
- [CCITT/ISO88c] CCITT/ISO, "CCITT Recommendations X.411/ ISO IS
- 10021-4", Message Handling Systems: Message Transfer System: Abstract
- Service Definition and Procedures, CCITT/ISO, December 1988.
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- [CCITT/ISO88d] CCITT/ISO, "Specification of Abstract Syntax Notation
- One (ASN.1)", CCITT Recommendation X.208 / ISO IS 8824, CCITT/ISO,
- December 1988.
-
- [Crocker82a] Crocker, D., "Standard of the Format of ARPA Internet
- Text Messages", RFC 822, August 1982.
-
- [Horton86a] Horton, M., "UUCP Mail Interchange Format Standard", RFC
- 976, February 1986.
-
- [Kille84b] Kille, S., "Gatewaying between RFC 822 and JNT Mail", JNT
- Mailgroup Note 15, May 1984.
-
- [Kille84a] Kille, S., Editor, "JNT Mail Protocol (revision 1.0)",
- Joint Network Team, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, March 1984.
-
- [Kille86a] Kille, S., "Mapping Between X.400 and RFC 822", UK
- Academic Community Report (MG.19) / RFC 987, June 1986.
-
- [Kille87a] Kille, S., "Addendum to RFC 987", UK Academic Community
- Report (MG.23) / RFC 1026, August 1987.
-
- [Kille89a] Kille, S., "A String Encoding of Presentation Address",
- UCL Research Note 89/14, March 1989.
-
- [Kille89b] Kille, S., "Mapping Between Full RFC 822 and RFC 822 with
- Restricted Encoding", RFC 1137, December 1989.
-
- [Larmouth83a] Larmouth, J., "JNT Name Registration Technical Guide",
- Salford University Computer Centre, April 1983.
-
- [Mockapetris87a] Mockapetris, P., "Domain Names - Concepts and
- Facilities", RFC 1034, USC/Information Sciences Institute, November
- 1987.
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- [Postel82a] Postel, J., "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol", RFC 821,
- USC/Information Sciences Institute, August 1982.
-
- [Rose85a] Rose M., and E. Stefferud, "Proposed Standard for Message
- Encapsulation", RFC 934, January 1985.
-
- [Systems85a] CEN/CENELEC/Information Technology/Working Group on
- Private Message Handling Systems, "FUNCTIONAL STANDARD A/3222",
- CEN/CLC/IT/WG/PMHS N 17, October 1985.
-
- Security Considerations
-
- Security issues are not discussed in this memo.
-
- Author's Address
-
- Steve Kille
- University College London
- Gower Street
- WC1E 6BT
- England
-
- Phone: +44-1-380-7294
-
- EMail: S.Kille@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK
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