Re: Yet another X.400 vs SMTP question
"Marco A. Hernandez" <mah@cren.net> Fri, 28 May 1993 14:28 UTC
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From: "Marco A. Hernandez" <mah@cren.net>
Subject: Re: Yet another X.400 vs SMTP question
To: Jon Crowcroft <J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
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On Fri, 28 May 1993, Jon Crowcroft wrote: > > > Conceptually, MOTIS and Internet Mail > provide very similar functionaility. > > SMTP + PEM + MIME + DNS MX Records and other useful internet services > > X.400 + ODIF or other + X.500 > > However, in practice, although there are probably as many seperate > implementations of each, in terms of tried, tested, fielded and > operational systems, the Internet is at least 3 orders of magnitude > ahead of any other protocol suite - the only thing close in terms of > installed base of protocols is Novell, which does not as far as I'm > aware include a Mail System as part of its applcations, being a simple > low level file sharing mecahanism with concommittend low level (1-4) > protocols largely (albeit well designed and engineered!). NOVELL has an MHS (Message Handling System) as an option to its NETWARE package. They also provide an SMTP gateway for it. I don't know what protocol(s) the MHS stuff is based on though ? Marco Hernandez
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