PWW@bnr.ca (Peter (P.W.)Whittaker ) (01/18/91)
> Ian, > > Have your local HP sales rep. talk to you about OpenMail. > > Briefly, it's a *native* (i.e. not gatewayed) X.400 mailing system, > that runs on a variety of Un*x platforms. Gateways to Sendmail, high > performance, etc. etc... > > Oh, and it can use SMTP as a transport, too. > > > Regards, > > richi. This has come up before (though I'm not which newsgroup carried it). FYI - here is a description of HP's OpenMail. Note that it is several separate products. It is essentially a proprietary service with an HP interface to an HP X.400 gateway. Previous discussion re. HP OpenMail follows.......... Peter Whittaker [~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~] Open Systems Integration pww@bnr.ca [ ] Bell Northern Research Ph: +1 613 765 2064 [ ] P.O. Box 3511, Station C FAX:+1 613 763 3283 [__________________________] Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y 4H7 > > > While the H/P Gateway sits between your X.400 MHS and SMTP, H/P's X.400 > > > is only an MTA: H/P uses a proprietary mail system on top of that. > > > > > > In other words, you might pay for functionality you can't or don't > > > want to use. > > > > > > While it might not conform to netiquette, I wouldn't mind seeing > > > an authoritive product description from H/P posted to this newsgroup: > > > no one with whom I've spoken (H/P rep and others) has been able to clearly > > > and unambiguously state what X.400/9000 does. The fact that it is an > > > X.400 interface to a proprietary e-mail system is something you have > > > to piece together from the sales literature and vendor descriptions. > > > > > > Peter W. > > > > Peter W. asked for some more info on HP X.400/9000 product. Here's a > > brief description. To keep in line with netiquette, if more detailed > > info is needed, please contact me. > > > > +-----------+ +-----------+ > > | ELM/mailx | | OpenMail | > > +-----------+ +-----------+ > > +-----------+ > > | Sendmail | > > +-----------+ > > ========================= > > | +-----------+ | +--------------+ > > | | X4mailer | | | X.400 interf | > > | +-----------+ | +--------------+ > > | ==================== > > | +----------+ | > > | | Message | | > > | X.400/9000 | Transfer | | > > | Product | Agent | | > > | +----------+ | > > | +----------+ | > > | | Reliable | | > > | | Transfer | | > > | | Server | | > > | +----------+ | > > ============================================ > > +----------+ > > | OSI | > > | Transport| > > | Service | > > +----------+ > > +-------------+ > > | X.25 or LAN | > > +-------------+ > > > > The X.400/9000 product includes "x4mailer" to provide X.400 gateway > > service to UNIX(r) mail users (a` la SMTP/RFC822/RFC987), besides being > > an MTA. x4mailer is to be used with "sendmail". Some configuration will be > > needed. > > > > Another product, HP OpenMail/X.400 Interface allows HP OpenMail product > > to integrate with X.400/9000. HP OpenMail is X.400-based mail server. > > One among HP OpenMail functionalities is X.400 User Agent application, > > supporting terminal as well as PC interfaces. > > > > Other products are needed for a complete OSI stack: OTS/9000 (for > > Session and Transport), and X.25/9000 and/or LAN/9000 (for network > > service). Only the HP X.400/9000 and the products for lower layers > > are required for an RFC822/X.400 gateway. > > > > > > Khiem Ho > > Hewlett-Packard > > > > X.400: C=US/AD=ATTMAIL/PD=HP/ORG=HP/OU1=HP6600/SN=Ho/GN=Khiem > > Internet: khiem@hpinddm.cup.hp.com > > Phone: (408)447-2660 > > > > > > ------- End of Forwarded Message > > > >