Christian.Huitema@MIRSA.INRIA.FR (Christian Huitema) (07/18/89)
Pete, Don't misunderstand me. Our X-400 gateway would indeed swallow the "/..=../" forms: 220 X.400 gateway at jerry.inria.fr ready. HELO jerry 250 Hello jerry.inria.fr, pleased to meet you. MAIL From: <huitema@mirsa> 250 huitema@mirsa.inria.fr...sender Ok. RCPT To: </G=Christian/S=Huitema/@mirsa.inria.fr> 250 <Christian.Huitema@mirsa.inria.fr>: recipient Ok. QUIT 221 Closing connection What I was pointing out is that a number of plain RFC-822 sites use various TCP-IP based softwares, e.g. sendmail ``IDA'' and its aliasing facilities, to handle addresses of the form "given_name.surname@domain". In Europe, there is very often a match between the "domain" and some combination of PRMD, ADMD, C, O and OU; the tokens "given_name" and "surname" get parsed into the X.400 personal name components. When the reply arrives to a gateway from X.400 to RFC-822, we should not leave to the gateway the option of printing it in the "/..=../" form, because the mail would simply fail! Christian Huitema PS. Your vocabulary about "local mailer" and "gateway mailer" refers to sendmail. Our gateway is not written as a "sendmail mailer", but rather as an autonomous MTA which can be accessed with two protocols: SMTP and X.400.
S.Kille@CS.UCL.AC.UK (Steve Kille) (07/19/89)
Yes, you are quite right. The wording implies that this mapping might be omitted. I'll tighten the wording. The detail of this message/some replies might confuse some of you, so can I note: - there is no big deal here! - we did not discuss this point at the meeting Steve
pgross@NRI.RESTON.VA.US ("Phillip G. Gross") (07/20/89)
Steve, If you wish to publish as an RFC, please send the request directly to Jon Postel. He is the RFC editor. If you wish to place your document in a public place for a short period, where it could be announced for public comment and perhaps lead to one last revision, then we can provide that service by placing it in the Internet-Drafts directory for period of time which you specify. Phill