X.400 P7 and Linux

[Joerg Morbitzer]

Hi all,

I need to send files to a customer of us, unfortunately the
customer only accepts mail via X.400.
So I ordered a X.400 mail box from the german telephone provider
"Deutsche Telekom". Unfortunately the "Deutsche Telekom" only
provides an email client running on Win32, but the files I need to
send are generated on a Linux box. Does anybody know a free mail
client running on Linux ? Do I also need a MTA or is an email
client enough ? (I am not familar with X.400 yet, perhaps my
questions might be a little bit stupid...)

Thanks in advance, Joerg.

[Lovecraftesque]

Having worked on OSI-related stuff in the past, X.400 in particular, I
am sorry to tell you that you are entering a dark, oppressive world.
Anyway, you do need an MTA somewhere, although it might be a remote one.
I have not seen any X.400 clients for Linux, free or not, but you might
like to check with the guys from atos (http://www.atos.com) A few years
ago they bought out Marben, a company specialized on OSI products.

Good luck.

In article <3B71512C...@sol-3.de>, "Joerg Morbitzer" <jo...@sol-3.de>
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[Paul Webster]

Shame you have to go to so much trouble.
One way to do this ... tar/gzip the Linux files on linux box - then
make that file available to the Win32 machine [eg SMTP mail it over to
a mailbox that you can get to fomr same machine] - then submit X.400
message with your tar attached.
But - before you go too far down that route .... make sure that you
can send messages to the recipient - and attach a file to see if he
can handle it.
Also - check file sizes accepted by the intermediate X.400 services -
some put limits on.

You could get X.400 MTA/UA on Linux - but I suggest looking to see how
many times you will be using it before putting in the effort. The end
recipient has probably got an SMTP/X.400 gateway somewhere ... if they
look hard enough ... and probably so has Deutsche Telekom.

Paul