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In an article (Message-Id: <1991Apr27.083359.30117@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>), 
(huff@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Steve Huff, University of Kansas, Lawrence)) wrote:

| Tough question.  The only network I've seen connected to Internet that
| uses x.400 addressing is SprintMail.  Can't say for certain this will work,
| but it's worth a try.

Just FYI, that won't work.  SprintMail (aka Telemail) is a comercial mail
system run by GTE Sprint, and partly administered by
alan.roszkiewicz@sprint.com.  The gateway is fully bidirectional ONLY for
ADMD=TELEMAIL.  Sending to any other MTAs costs Sprint money which they are
not willing to pay, so they have taken them out of thier RFC-987 routing
tables.  For instance, while ADMD=TELECOM.CANADA and ADMD=TELEMAIL talk
directly to each other, sprint.com will not gateway to ADMD=TELECOM.CANADA
because it costs $$$.  However, the gateway is fully unidirectional in that
users on other MTAs which talk to TELEMAIL can send through their RFC-987
gateway to the Internet.

So, you could not send to ADMD=ATLAS via sprint.com.

Nasamail and the Commercial Mail Relay people at ISI.EDU run two fully
bidirectional gateways to TELEMAIL and MTAs which talk with it.  The
gateways are mostly publically funded, and are for "acceptable use" purposes
only.

There are several other X.400 networks which are even more closely connected
to the Internet: XNREN, the U.S. pilot X.500 project; CDNNet, the Canadian
X.400 research network; and RARE, the European Research Community
Network (using X.400/X.500).  All of these have several peer-level gateways
which don't rely upon the spooling done at e.g. sprint.com or
nasamail.nasa.gov or intermail.isi.edu.  Some of them are nac.no and
mhs-relay.ac.uk, and probably still mirsa.inria.fr.

In this case, gplanansky would probably want to send to:

/C=FR/ADMD=ATLAS/PRMD=CNES/O=CNES/OU=ARGOS2/S=gaspar/@nac.no

Which will work, if the X.400 address is valid.

| Steve
| -----
| Steve Huff, student, University of Kansas     "Still love that KU basketball!"
| Microcomputer Consultant, Hill's Pet Products, Topeka, Kansas
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-- 
Sean Doran <smd@lsuc.ON.CA>  The Law Society of Upper Canada
also seand@ziebmef.mef.org   Young Liberals of Canada/Parti Liberal du Canada
and  /C=CANADA/ADMD=TELECOM.CANADA/ID=ICS.TEST/S=TESTGROUP/@nasamail.nasa.gov