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- CURRENTLY KNOWN X.400 IMPLEMENTATIONS
- -------------------------------------
- $Revision: 1.8 $
- $Date: 1993/01/01 03:00:06 $
-
- NOTE: The information below does NOT form any recommendation of any
- specific product. It is simply a collection of statements that have
- been made about products, mostly by E-mail to the maintainer of this
- group. It is neither complete nor exhaustive, and carries NO guarantees.
-
- FREE IMPLEMENTATIONS
- ====================
-
- The current free implementation of X.400 is PP, from University
- College London.
- It is also an SMTP mailer, and a gateway between these, so you can
- communicate with "both worlds".
-
- You can FTP PP from ftp.psi.com (isode/pp-6.0.tar.Z), from nic.eu.net
- (network/isode/pp-6.0.tar.Z) or from a lot of other sites. It is also
- available on FTAM, UK NIFTP and tape.
-
- Support: pp-support@cs.ucl.ac.uk
- Discussion: pp-people@cs.ucl.ac.uk, mail pp-people-request to join.
-
- If you have an IBM VM system, you might be interested in QK-MHS from
- Queen's university at Kingston created by Andy Hooper.
- It is listed below as QK-MHS.
-
- OTHER IMPLEMENTATIONS
- =====================
-
- There are a *lot* of commercial and licenseable implementations for
- various platforms; below is a partial list.
-
- Additions are VERY welcome!!!!!!!!
-
- Product Type of distribution Contact
- -----------------------------------------------
- BiMAIL Commercial pge@sunbim.be
- CDC MHS/4000 Commercial Kevin.Jordan@udev.cdc.com
- DC-Mail Commercial frank@datcon.co.uk
- DG AV/400 Commercial ????
- EAN License harald.alvestrand@delab.sintef.no
- HP X.400 Commercial ?????
- ICL OfficePower Commercial toby@nezsupp.icl.co.nz
- ISOCOR Commercial S=knight;PRMD=isocor;ADMD=telemail;C=us
- MacX.400 Commercial ?????
- NAR400 License nar400-mhs@cactus.dit.upm.es
- NET400 Commercial jwal@bits.alcbel.be
- OSITEL License siebert@dfn.dbp.de
- OSIWare M400 Commercial mealey@vancouver.osiware.bc.ca
- PP Free pp-support@cs.ucl.ac.uk
- QK-MHS Free HOOPER@QUCDN.QueensU.CA
- Retix X.400 Commercial malcolm.white@nasales.gateway.retix.com
- Route400 Commercial ????
- SoftSwitch Commercial sbf@ssw.com
- Sunlink MHS Commercial ?????
- UCLA/Mail400 License Mayerhofer@refma.dlr.dbp.de
- UCOM.X Commercial e3x-com@e3x.fr
- X/EM Commercial berlen@tecsiel.it
- XT-PP Commercial sales@xtel.co.uk
-
- There are also a large number of gateways to X.400 from other systems,
- especially PC mail systems. Below are listed some; I have no more
- information about them. All of them are commercial.
-
- Name What it does Contact
- -------------------------------------------------------
- BanyanMail Gateway to Banyan VINES ???
- DEC All-In-One Gateway to All-In-One mail ???
- Lotus CC:Mail Gateway to CC:Mail ???
- Microsoft Mail Gateway to Microsoft Mail vincepe@microsoft.com
- TeamMail Gateway to LanManager mail +++ Jukka.luoma@icl.icl.mailnet.fi
- WP Office Word Perfect mail gateway ???
- WorldTalk Gateway to CC:Mail and others ???
- Dispatcher/Mac Gateway to QuickMail dave@intercon.com
-
-
- Some keywords on those X.400 implementations I know more about:
-
- EAN
- ---
- X.400 MTA and User Agent.
- Made at the University of British Columbia, Canada, in the Eighties.
- The first X.400 implementation to get seriously used by anyone.
- Currently, development is done at UBC and at SINTEF DELAB, Norway.
- You need a license to run it, but the licensing situation is unclear.
- M400 is the commercial product based on the original EAN.
-
- PP
- --
- X.400 MTA, SMTP mailer, Grey Book (UK) mailer, UUCP mailer, and gateway
- between all of the above. No user interface, can use SMTP based UAs.
- Made at University College London.
- Distribution is free and unlimited. You are even allowed to sell it!
-
- UCOM.X
- ------
- X.400 MTA and gateway to SMTP.
- Formerly known as Mailway and M.Plus; developed at INRIA, France.
- Now commercialized by a company called E3X.
- Technical contact: E3x-tech@E3x.fr
- C=FR;ADMD=ATLAS;PRMD=E3X;S=E3X-tech
- Commercial contact: E3x-com@E3x.fr
- C=FR;ADMD=ATLAS;PRMD=E3X;S=E3X-com
- This information supplied by Alain Zahm <zahm@osi.e3x.fr>
-
-
- NAR400
- ------
- X.400 MTA, SMTP gateway, X-Windows, MS-Windows and line oriented
- user interfaces, P7 client and server, APIs.
- It is an MHS software package developed by the "Departamento de
- Ingenieria de Sistemas Telematicos" (DIT) of the "Universidad
- Politecnica de Madrid" (UPM).
- It uses ISODE at session and below on Unix.
- A license costs approx 450 ECUs ("covering distribution costs").
- Contact: nar400-mhs@cactus.dit.upm.es
- C=es; ADMD=mensatex; PRMD=iris; O=upm; OU=dit; OU=cactus; S=nar400-mhs
- This information supplied by Antonio Linares Torres <linares@dit.upm.es>
-
- OSIWare M400
- ------------
- X.400 product like EAN, but "commercialized".
- Contact: C=fr;ADMD=atlas;PRMD=osiware;O=paris;OU=management;S=nader;G=azita
- Note: This address is NOT in the RARE routing tables.
- This information supplied by Bjorn Myrstad <Bjorn.Myrstad@delab.sintef.no>
- For Internet users, use:
- mealey@vancouver.osiware.bc.ca (sales)
- koorland@vancouver.osiware.bc.ca (technical)
- chang@vancouver.osiware.bc.ca (product)
- These addresses supplied by Brian Wideen
- <Brian.Wideen@vancouver.osiware.bc.ca>
-
- DC-Mail
- -------
- Portable product - with 1988 support, P7 and X.500 access by Data
- Connection, England. Supports P1 and P3 interfaces, and the X/Open
- APIs.
-
- Runs on OS/2, UNIX V.3 variants, UNIX V5.4 and some proprietary
- operating systems.
-
- This information supplied by Frank McShane <frank@datcon.co.uk>
-
- BiMAIL
- -----
-
- X.400/84 for Sun4 architecture, developed in Belgium based on RETIX
- sources by BIM sa/nv. Includes an X-windows UA (OpenLook) with remote
- access.
- Supports X.25 and RFC1006. Can support RETIX UAs.
- X.400/88 and X.500 support is being worked on (expected 2nd half 1992).
- This information supplied by Patrick Geurts <pge@sunbim.be>
- <C=be;A=rtt;P=bim;O=horizon;S=geurts;G=patrick>
-
- OSITEL/400
- ----------
- X.400 MTA and User Agent, SMTP-Gateway and File Distribution
- Server with MTA-interface. It is running on various UNIX platforms, e.g.
- SUN-OS, HP-UX, PCS-MUNIX. It was developed by DFN and technically realized
- by the Danet GmbH. Danet is developping an additinal X.400 UA with a WINDOW
- based user interface for UNIX workstations and MS-DOS PCs. The new UA will
- communicate with the MTA over LAN via Ethernet underlying TCP/IP. Members of
- DFN and some other institutions for research and development can get the
- license for OSITEL/400 free of charge. The product passed the X.400
- Conformance Testing through the German Eurolab ROLAND and got the European
- X.400 conformance certification. Within DFN there are about 60 installations
- in operation.
-
- License contact: c=de;a=dbp;p=dfn;s=siebert
- +49 (0) 30 88429941
- Technical contact: c=de;a=dbp;p=danet;o=mhs;s=eisenbeis;g=herbert
- +49 (0) 6151 868167
- Commercial contact: c=de;a=dbp;p=danet;o=danet gmbh;s=klaus;g=hans-georg
- +49 (0) 6151 8680
- +49 (0) 6151 131 (FAX)
-
- This information supplied by Gabriele v. Siebert <siebert@dfn.dbp.de>
-
- SoftSwitch X.400 Gateway
- ------------------------
-
- This product connects with Soft-Switch Central on IBM mainframes (MVS
- or VM) and provides a gateway to X.400(84) P1/P2 for typically large
- organizations who connect themselves as a PRMD to public
- service/ADMDs. Any e-mail system or application that connects to
- Soft-Switch Central, via standards-based or proprietary protocol can
- exchange e-mail across the X.400 Gateway (typically, there are many).
- The product is in production use by many large commercial
- organizations in the US and Europe.
-
- This information supplied by Greg Loux <gtl@softsw.ssw.com>
-
- Data General AV/400
- -------------------
- Data General has AV/X.400 for the DG/UX operating system on the AViiON
- series of computer systems. It includes an RFC-conformant SMTP gateway.
- This information supplied by Robert Claesson <robert@sys.sweden.dg.com>
-
-
- ISOCOR
- ------
- ISOCOR is a company that claims to be providing communication software
- solutions for EDIFACT, CCITT 1988 & 1984 X.400, X.435 and
- corresponding Security tools. Platforms are IBM RS/6000 and
- PC-networks. They claim to show it all on CeBIT this year (1992).
-
- Solutions:
- ISOMAIL400 - fully conformant X.400 UAs
- ISOTRADE400 - EDIFACT exchange over X.435/P2
- ISOPLEX400 - MTAs
- ISOSEC400 - authentication and encryption of EDIFACT and InterPersonal
- messages.
- ISOGATE400 - Gateways
-
- Addres: USA
-
- 12011 San Vicente Blvd.,
- Suite 500
- LA, CA 90049, USA
- Phone: +1 (310) 476-2671
- Fax: +1 (310) 472-1055
-
- This information supplied by Jan Hansen
- <Jan.Hansen@teknologi.agderforskning.no>
-
- E-mail contact: S=knight;PRMD=isocor;ADMD=telemail;C=us
- This address supplied by Erik Skovgaard <eskovgaa@cue.bc.ca>
-
- Control Data Systems Mail*Hub
- -----------------------------
- Mail*Hub includes an X.400 MTA and gateways to SMTP, IBM PROFS, IBM VM/CMS
- notes, DEC Mail 11, and Group III Fax. Mail*Hub uses X.500 directory
- services for configuration managment, route discovery, mail alias resolution,
- and distribution list expansion. Mail*Hub runs on UNIX-based systems, from
- desktop workstations to departmental servers.
-
- Mail*Hub is a commercial product suite of Control Data Systems, Inc.
-
- This information supplied by Kevin Jordan <kej@mercury.udev.cdc.com>
-
- Touch Communications WorldTalk
- ------------------------------
- X.400 MTA running on an 80386 with UNIX. Provides gateways to several
- PC mail packages including CC-mail on NOVELL LAN.
-
- This information supplied by Johann Gunnarsson <johg@rhi.hi.is>
-
- TeamMail
- --------
- An X.400(84) product based on RETIX X.400 library.
- UAs for Windows and DOS. Server for OS/2. Client/server communication
- through NetBIOS.
-
- Gateways to LanManager, SMTP, Fax and MEMO are available as separate
- options.
- Contact (X.400 shaped):
- C=fi;ADMD=mailnet;PRMD=icl;O=icl;OU=fin1401;S=huovila;G=harri
-
- This information supplied by Jukka Oraj?rvi <jukkao@otol.fi>
- Contact supplied by Lauri Hirvonen, ICL Finland
-
- ICL OfficePower
- ---------------
- The ICL OfficePower Office Information System uses X.400 as its internal
- mail protocol, integrated with the rest of the package.
- Exists on ICL DRS6000 (Sparc), DRS3000 (Intel), Sun SPARC, SCO Unix and
- IBM RS6000. Both OSI and TCP/IP connections supported - some platforms
- only have TCP/IP. Available in several languagues.
-
- Contact: Toby Bradwell <toby@icl.co.nz>
-
-
- ICL DRS
- -------
- Two products:
- - DRS/MTA(88): 1988 compliant MTA that runs on SPARC and INTEL with SVR4.
- Supports GOSIP profile (CLNP and X.25) and point-to-point links.
- Runs over TCP/IP.
- Sold as "switching node" and "leaf node" MTAs.
- - DRS/XMHS(88): X/Open compliant programming utilities for writing user
- agents on top of DRS/MTA.
-
- The RFC1006 support is quite new (december 1992) and has to be bought
- separately; the product name is DRS/NX ISO Transport Service over
- TCP/IP
-
- Contact: Toby Bradwell <toby@icl.co.nz>
-
- ICL CARRIER 400
- ---------------
-
- Fault tolerant MTA, supports an "intercept" of X.500
- (this is used, among others, by the Norwegian ADMD "TelemaX.400")
-
- Contact: Toby Bradwell <toby@icl.co.nz>
-
-
- Route400
- --------
- PC-LAN based system with an MTA running on a dedicated PC with an X.25
- card on the LAN and UAs running on non-dedicated PCs.
-
- The UA has its own built-in editor for typing in text body parts for
- messages, but use of an external editor is also supported. Binary body
- parts are also supported. The MTA supports P1 in 84-mode, the UA/MTA
- protocol is not a standard protocol.
-
- For the UA PCs utilities exists for scanning mailboxes (e.g. to see if
- any new messages has arrived) without actually running the UA.
- Software for a supporting "remote UAs" (UAs running on a PC not
- connected to the LAN, but e.g. via PSTN) is also available.
-
- Further information can be a obtained from:
-
- Net-Tel Computer Systems Ltd
- 4 Place Farm
- WHEATHHAMPSTEAD
- Hertfordshire
- AL4 8SB
- UK
-
- Telephone: +44 58283 4222
-
- This information suplied by Jens Groth Andreasen <Andreasen@SP1.y-net.dk>
-
- UCLA/Mail400
- ------------
- It comprises an X.400 MTA and UA, an X.400/BSMTP-Gateway and also
- a user interface for users of EARN/BITNET/Netnorth.
- It was developed by DFN and technically realized by SOFTLAB AG and
- GMD Bonn based on UCLA/Mail and Retix software. It is running on
- MVS (370, XA and ESA). The product passed the X.400 Conformance Test at
- the German Eurolab. There is to pay a license-fee of which the amount
- depends upon whether or not the licensee is member of DFN or a
- R&D institution.
-
- License contact: c=de;a=dbp;p=dfn;s=siebert
- +49 30 88429941
- Technical contact: c=de;a=dbp;p=dlr;ou=refma;s=mayerhofer
- Tel: +49 8153 28920
- Fax: +49 8153 281136
-
- Information by Werner Vanselow <RZ3K@REFMA.dlr.dbp.de>
-
- X/EM
- -----
- X/EM is X.400 '84 product part of Tecsiel X/OSI product line.
- It is a commercial product with the following characteristics:
- - Support of UA and MTA
- - courses based full screen user interface for ANSI terminals
- - portable on UNIX platforms and now running on the following UNIX platforms:
- Digital Ultrix 4.2a, IBM Risc/6000 AIX 3.1.5, Hewlett-Packard
- HP9000 HP-UX 8.0, Intel 80386 Interactive 386/ix 3.2, Sun
- Microsystems SunOS 4.1.2 (Solaris 1.0), Olivetti LSX50X0 Intel
- 80486 Unix System V release 4, Siemens MX-300 o MX-500
- SINIX-H, Bull DPX/2 B.O.S. 02.00.15
- Contact:
- Oronzo Berlen
- Tecsiel s.p.a. tt
- (an IRI-Finsiel Company) tttttt
- Via Santa Maria, 19 tt
- I-56126 PISA (PI) tt
- Italy ttt
-
- Phone: +39-50-512-511 (operator)
- +39-50-512-529 (direct)
-
- Fax : +39-50-589-015
- +39-50-589-016
-
- E-MAIL: berlen@tecsiel.it (Arpanet)
-
- Information by Oronzo Berlen <berlen@teculx.TECSIEL.it>
-
- Retix X.400
- -----------
- Retix X.400 products are either portable source code or precompiled
- binaries.
- Portable source exists for '84 and '88 as well as API libraries for
- '84 Gateway API and '88 Application and Gateway APIs.
-
- The pre-packaged products are called OpenServer 400, and exist for
- DOS, UNIX (ISC or SCO) and OS/2.
- DOS and UNIX support X.25 and CLNS; OS/2 supports X.25 only. RFC1006
- is supported by the UNIX versions.
-
- There are also gateways from OpenServer 400 to:
- SMTP (MG-130) (claims conformance to RFC-987 only)
- Novel MHS (MG-150)
- Oracle Mail (MG-170)
- WordPerfect Office (MG-180)
- Microsoft Mail for the Mac (MG-190) and
- Microsoft Mail for the PC (MG-195)
- Work is in progress on a QuickMail gateway.
-
- Contact:
- malcolm.white@nasales.gateway.retix.com
- C=us;A=telemail;P=retix;O=sm;OU1=corp;OU2=nasales;S=white;G=malcolm
-
-
- Alcatel NET400
- --------------
- Alcatel NET400 is a multi-platform X.400 product which runs on different HW OS
- configurations (both Unix and non-Unix), amongst which:
- - DEC VAX/VMS,
- - Tandem/NonStop-UX,
- - HP 9000/HP-UX,
- - HP-Apollo/Aegis,
- - Bull DPX2/BOS,
- - Interactive Unix,
- - SCO Unix,
- - SCO Xenix,
- - Apple MAC/AUX,
- - Sun/SunOS and Solaris.
- Planned are ports to Stratus/FTX and IBM RS6000/AIX.
-
- Alcatel NET400 consists of different components such as MTA, MS, cUA (which is
- menu-based) & rUA (MS-DOS & MS-Windows) over LAN (TCP/IP, CLNS) or WAN (X.25,
- PSTN), API, DIR, EDI, FAX AU & TLX AU and a SysAdmin Module.
- Alcatel NET400 Management Domains - both ADMD or PRMD - can be configurated
- as single- or multi-MTA domains.
-
- As for certifications of the product:
- - ENV conformance tested and certified;
- - passed the SPAG Interoperability tests (PSI);
- - EPHOS compliant.
-
- Contact:
- J. Walravens
- Alcatel Bell
- Excelsiorlaan 44-46
- B-1930 Zavemtem
- BELGIUM
-
- Phone : +32-2-719.71.39 (operator)
-
- Alcatel 4300L PABX
- ------------------
- An MTA integrated with a telephone switch. In the marketing literature,
- it is referred to as the "X.400 Written Mail Service of the Alcatel
- 4300L PABX".
-
- Main characteristics:
- - Compatible with X.400 - 1984
- - Heterogeneous multi-body messages (IA5, Fax Group 3, Teletex, Videotex,
- conversion text to fax Group 3)
- - High reliability due to mirrored disk storage
- - Message arrival is indicated to addressee by a blinking LED on his
- digital telephone set
- - X.121 addresses supported (fax and telex)
- - Used for the delivery of faxes by the Atlasfax service of the French
- ADMD Atlas400.
-
- Contacts:
- - Commercial:
- Loic MELSCOET, Alcatel Business Systems, A4300L Marketing Manager
- tel. +33-1-4769-4654, fax +33-1-4769-4690.
-
- - Technical:
- Antoine TOTARO, Alcatel Business Systems
- tel. +33-1-4785-5582, fax +33-1-4785-5765.
-
- This information supplied by Jan Ceuleers <JANC@btgv48.alcbel.be>
-
- QK-MHS
- ------
-
- X.400-84 MTA, X.400-84 UA, X.400-BSMTP-Gateway and X.400-PROFS-Gateway
- The software package was delevoped by Andrew S. Hooper, Queen's University,
- Kingston, Ontario, Canada in the years 1984-87 and modified and improved
- in a cooperation between University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and GMD
- in St. Augustin from 1990 on. It is running on various IBM VM operating
- systems (VM/SP, VM/XA, VM/ESA). At present it is mainly used for
- the central German X.400-BSMTP-Gateway to connect DFN and EARN/ BITNET
- and as part of the EARN-VNET-Gateway operated in Paris at C.I.R.C.E.
-
- Contacts: Author: Andrew.S.Hooper@QUCDN.BITNET
- European support: Manfred.Bogen@GMD.DE
-
- XT-PP
- -----
-
- XT-PP is the commercial version of the popular public domain PP
- software. X-Tel's product is distributed as a binary and provides a
- number of enhancements to the public domain version. XT-PP is also
- fully supported by X-Tel and undergoing continuing development. XT-PP
- can be used with the forthcoming X.400 P7 Motif user agent XT-MUA.
-
- For further information please contact sales@xtel.co.uk
-
- This information supplied by Jason P. Kitchen <support@xtel.co.uk>
-
- Dispatcher/MacX.400
- -------------------
- A gateway from QuickMail (from CE software) to Apple's MacX.400
- product, shipped by InterCon Systems Corporation
-
- Contact: Dave Saunders <dave@intercon.com>
-
- This information supplied by Dave Saunders <dave@intercon.com>
-
- MacX.400
- --------
- X.400/84 MTA (MTA only). People who have seen it praise its ease of
- installation highly, and the price is rumored to be quite reasonable.
- <I WOULD like some more info on this one!>
-
- Information supplied by the author....
- .
-