ISO/IEC 10021,

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Message Handling System Message Handling System (MHS) is an important early email protocol developed by Action Technologies, Inc. (ATI) in 1986. Novell licensed it in 1988 then later bought it. Email clients A wide variety of email clients used MHS, including: * Para-M ...

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which defines the overall system and service of an MHS and serves as a general overview of MHS. Other aspects of Message Handling Systems and Services are defined in other parts of ISO/IEC 10021. The structure of ISO/IEC 10021 (all parts) defining the Message Handling System and Services is given in Table 1. The

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aspects of MHS are defined in other parts of ISO/IEC 10021. The overall system

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of MHS is defined in ISO/IEC 10021-2:1996.

Parts

* ISO/IEC 10021-1:2003 ''Part 1: System and service overview'' * ISO/IEC 10021-2:2003 ''Overall architecture'' * ISO/IEC 10021-4:2003 ''Message transfer system – Abstract service definition and procedures'' * ISO/IEC 10021-5:1999 ''Message store: Abstract service definition'' * ISO/IEC 10021-6:2003 ''Protocol specifications'' * ISO/IEC 10021-7:2003 ''Interpersonal messaging system'' * ISO/IEC 10021-8:1999 ''Part 8: Electronic Data Interchange Messaging Service '' * ISO/IEC 10021-9:1999 ''Electronic Data Interchange Messaging System'' * ISO/IEC 10021-10:1999 ''MHS routing'' * ISO/IEC TR 10021-11:1999 ''MHS Routing – Guide for messaging systems managers''

References

ISO Catalogue in the ISO website

Intelligent Transport Systems Standards By Bob Williams
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