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- Network Working Group S. Sluizer
- Request for Comments: 786 J. Postel
- ISI
- July 1981
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- MAIL TRANSFER PROTOCOL:
- ISI TOPS20 MTP-NIMAIL INTERFACE
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- INTRODUCTION
-
- This document defines the ISI TOPS20s interface between the Mail
- Transfer Protocol (MTP) and the Network Independent Mail Protocol
- (NIMAIL) in terms of the files which implement it. The internal
- structure and name of each file is described below.
-
- For a complete understanding of the MTP protocol as well as the terms
- used within this document, see RFC 780 "Mail Transfer Protocol", RFC
- 784 "ISI TOPS20 Implementation", and RFC 785 "ISI TOPS20 File
- Defintitions". The NIMAIL is documented in IEN 169, "A Simple
- NIFTP-Based Mail System".
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- DESCRIPTION
-
- 1. NIMAIL to MTP
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- NIMAIL will present mail for processing by MTP using the files
- specified in RFC 785.
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- 2. MTP to NIMAIL
-
- MTP will present mail for processing by NIMAIL in files of the
- following form:
-
- address <CR><LF>
- address <CR><LF>
- address <CR><LF>
- <CR><LF>
- Via: USC-ISIE; date-time <CR><LF>
- header
- .
- .
- .
- <CR><LF>
- body
- .
- .
- .
-
- Where each address is of the form:
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- July 1981 RFC 786
- ISI TOPS20 MTP-NIMAIL Interface
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- user%host%host%host@host
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- And each address in the same file has the same "@host" part.
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- The date-time will be in the default TOPS20 ODTIM format
- "dd-mmm-yy hh:mm:ss" (24 hour time).
-
- The files will named "arbitrary.NIMAIL.-1", where "arbitrary" will
- be somesort of date-time encoding for human uses. The NIMAIL will
- not care in the least what the "arbitrary" part is. These files
- will be placed into the NIMAIL directory on ISIE.
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- DISCUSSION
-
- The NIMAIL and MTP will each perform a transformation of the address
- information to create the appropriate input for the other system.
-
- NIMAIL to MTP
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- The mail that arrives at NIMAIL with the information
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- joe%hostx%hosty%hostz@isie
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- will be presented to MTP with the information
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- FROM: <NIMAIL@ISIE>
- TO: <@hostz,@hosty,joe@hostx>
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- MTP to NIMAIL
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- The mail that arrives at MTP with the information
-
- FROM: <sam@SRI-NIC>
- TO: <@ISIE,@hostz,@hosty,joe@hostx>
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- will be presented to NIMAIL with the information
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- joe%hostx%hosty@hostz
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- Via: ISIE
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