[Info-vax] OT: is X.400 still viable?

[John Wallace]

On Oct 18, 8:53 am, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 12-10-17 19:16, David Froble wrote:
>
> > Can you give me examples of procedures than can be done on a VAX that
> > cannot be done on an Alpha, or IA-64?
>
> Perhaps you are unfamiliar with message router.  If you have an
> appliation architected around MR and makes heavy use of MRIF$ routines,
> you have to basically have a total rewrite of the application to use the
> X.400 Mailbus equivalent on Alpha (and not even sure that one was ported
> to IA64).

I know X.400/X.500 was, is, and probably always will be a better
designed mail standard for the modern (well, 1980s) era than the
ongoing nightmare of untrustworthiness that is teletype-era POP/SMTP
plus elastoplasts, but does anyone besides you (and, in principle, me)
actually care any more?

Isn't it a bit like having one telephone with its own unique
connectivity standard and no one else has a matching one for you to
call?