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Fri, 01 Jan 1993 03:01
FAQ/Product list - Products implementing the X.400 standards
Author: Harald.T.Alvestrand
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 03:01
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 03:01
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CURRENTLY KNOWN X.400 IMPLEMENTATIONS
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$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
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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
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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
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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....
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