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12-8 Setting Up The Mailbus MTA to Support The Digital DEC/EDI User Agent • Cross Reference Information • Deferred Delivery • Deferred Delivery Cancellation • Disclosure of Other Recipients • DL Expansion History Indication • Multi-part Body The full list of 36 mandatory Service Elements is as follows: 1. Access Management Enables a User Agent (UA) and Message Transfer Agent (MTA) to establish access to one another and to manage information associated with access establishment. 2. Alternate Recipient Allowed Enables an originating user to request the Physical Delivery Access Unit (PDAU) to provide additional rendition facilities. 3. Character Set Allows the originator to indicate in the heading of the EDI-message, the character set used in the EDI body of the message. 4. Content Type Indication Enables the originating User Agent (UA) to indicate the content type of each submitted message. A recipient User Agent (UA) can have one or more content types delivered to it. An example of a content type is the contents generated by the Inter Personal Mail (IPM) class of cooperating UAs. 5. Conversion Prohibition Enables an originating User Agent (UA) to instruct the Message Transfer System (MTS) that the implicit encoded information type conversion(s) should not be performed for a particular message. 6. Converted Indication Enables the Message Transfer System (MTS) to indicate to a recipient User Agent (UA) that the Message Transfer System (MTS) performed encoded information type conversion on a delivered message. The recipient User Agent (UA) is informed of the resulting types. SETTING UP THE PEDI GATEWAY
