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Article #419Re: Incredible headers in AT&T "X.400"
From: fair
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1987 09:36
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1987 09:36
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Steve Blasingame of AT&T asserts that the CCITT X.400 mail standard is here to stay. While this is likely the case (as much as some people might otherwise wish that it would go away), it is not the standard used by the UUCP network, the BITNET, the MAILNET, the USENET or the ARPA Internet. If AT&T wishes to continue to communicate with any of the networks that I just listed, the relevant standard for mail header format is RFC822, not X.400. For those sites that *insist* upon running X.400 mailers, I strongly suggest that you obtain RFC987, which lists mappings between X.400 and RFC822, and implement the recommendations therein. To fail to do so will be to fail to communicate. holding out the forlorn hope that someone in AT&T is listening, Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU!fair From: fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Incredible headers in AT&T "X.400" Message-ID: <17992@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Tue, 24-Mar-87 04:36:27 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.17992 Posted: Tue Mar 24 04:36:27 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 26-Mar-87 00:53:16 EST References: <1907@hoptoad.uucp> <57200001@gorgo.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: USENET Protocol Police, Western Gateway Division Lines: 16 Summary: X.400 is not the standard on this network.