harald.alvestrand@elab-runit.sintef.no (02/25/91)
Hello out there,
I know that a *lot* of you are working on PP based UAs and such stuff.
I wonder if anyone is making the mail system *I* want to have......
This is a system "for end-users only" or something like that.
Critical points:
USER INTEREST:
- X.400 only, no gateways.
- Talks P1(88) to its neighbours
- X based user interface to the UA
- Well defined interface (preferably P7) where other UIs can be added
MANAGER INTEREST:
- No tables in system setup!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- "Crashes gracefully" without loss of messages when system failures like
shutdowns and full disks occur
- Able to get *all* its information from remote info sites (preferably X.500,
but specialized infoservers are a possibility)
- Support for at least X.25 and RFC1006 network layers
- Provides enough log to make it possible to trace messages across the network
The main purpose of this kind of software is to have a well-behaved "distribute
and forget" type of mail system, "X.400 for the masses" if you like.
If nobody is doing it, that *might* be reason enough to start somethihg....
My main comments on some other systems:
- EAN: Too many licenses. Too many bugs.
- M.PLUS: Too many licenses. No user interface. (RFC-822 only)
- PP: Too big. Too many tables.
Despite my points about "licenses", I *would* like to know also of commercial
systems that fit at least some of my points above.....
Harald Tveit Alvestrand
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