Xref: utzoo alt.fax:242 comp.mail.misc:2020 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!pegasus!psrc From: psrc@pegasus.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) Newsgroups: alt.fax,comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Sending Faxes using AT&T Mail Summary: how to do it (telexes, U.S. Mail, overnight too) Keywords: AT&T Mail Message-ID: <602@pegasus.ATT.COM> Date: 29 Jun 89 19:51:39 GMT References: <29469@cornell.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 69 In article <29469@cornell.UUCP>, martin@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Bill Martin) writes: > Someone posted a description of ATT Mail recently and how > one can send faxes using it. I think that was me. > From Unix, ATT Mail is accessable on the UUCP network, but the > machines I use are on Internet (and BITNET). Standard introduction: AT&T Mail is a commercial electronic messaging service. There is no gateway from BITNET and the Internet, because we'd charge the gateway for every message the gateway would pass on, and that gateway would have to swallow the costs, or work out a bill-back scheme. The latter is unlikely (the former, even more so!) > . . . no one at ATT Mail could tell me the electronic mail > address to use. What one wants done with the file (Fax, overnight > letter, telex, etc.) is part of the mail address as well. Who'd you talk to? The right people to ask are at the AT&T Mail Customer Assistance Center, attmail!atthelp, 1-800-MAIL-672 (1-800-624-5672). We also have front-end software running on stand-alone MS-DOS PC's (Access PLUS), networked MS-DOS PC's (STARMail, which runs on more than just STARLAN), stand-alone Macintoshes (Access III), and UNIX(R) systems (PMX/TERM) that make working with AT&T Mail much easier. Sending to fax and telex is easy: just pretend that AT&T Mail knows about two systems (called fax and telex), and that the phone number of the fax machine and the telex account are users on those systems. For example, you could send mail to attmail!fax!1-201-576-3321, and it'd show up on my fax machine (the hyphens are ignored). If you can persuade your mailer to add parenthetical messages at the end of the To: line, you can include (answerback/attentionTo) for a telex message, or some banner information (such as the name of the recipient) to a fax message. Sending U.S. Mail or overnight delivery to an AT&T Mail subscriber is easy enough; just add /paper or /paper/overnight to the end of the message. You could mail me a paper copy of your message by sending to attmail!psrchisholm/paper (or attmail!psrchisholm/paper/usmail, which is what /paper defaults to). There are some issues of memos vs. business letters, and what logo (if any) you'd like to appear on the paper, but let's not get into that. Sending U.S. Mail or overnight delivery to J. Random Person (who doesn't have an address in the AT&T Mail directory) is a little harder. The trick is to actually send your message to attmail!dispatcher, and to have a Paper-To: recipient in the message. The following lines in your message header would get a piece of paper delivered to me overnight: Paper-To: Paul S. R. Chisholm room 3C-318 AT&T Bell Laboratories 307 Middletown-Lincroft Rd. Lincroft, NJ 07738 Phone: optionally-insert-phone-number-here /overnight AT&T Mail also supports Paper-Cc: and Paper-Bcc: headers. If you have any further questions, or would like to get an account on AT&T Mail or order some of our software, please contact the AT&T Mail Customer Assistance Center. Paul S. R. Chisholm, AT&T Bell Laboratories att!pegasus!psrc, psrc@pegasus.att.com, AT&T Mail !psrchisholm I'm not speaking for the company, I'm just speaking my mind.