Jim:
I have had a lot of experience in this area, and I am glad to hear that new
product releases have repaired this major shortcoming. I have personally
been bit by this by more than one product.
I do not think that MTA architectures are the main point of this thread, so
lets see if we can get back to the S/MIME and CMS issues...
Russ
At 06:24 PM 12/18/2001 +0000, Jim Craigie wrote:
Now, in theory X.400 MTAs only deal with the envelope and are able to
pass
arbitrary content types around, making it possible to introduce new
ones at any
time. Howevr, I've found that sometimes this works in practice and often
it
doesn't. Support for this in real world X.400 implementations is far
from
uniform. At least part of the reason why this is so is because this
capability
is rarely used, and rarely used capabilities are bound to have bugs,
especially
given that most X.400 implementations are rarely updated these days.
I don't know what X.400 systems you are basing the above comment on. I've
been involved with interoperability testing STANAG 4406 PCT (just CMS
really), and we have not seen a single problem with an X.400 MTA being
unable to relay the new content type.
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