Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: laba-2ac%web-2a.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.berkeley.edu Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Internet Gateways to Commercial Networks Message-ID: Date: 6 Sep 89 00:17:12 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 63 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 352, message 3 of 7 In article langz@asylum.UUCP (Lang Zerner) writes: >[Moderator's Note: They are getting easier to use all the time. In years >past, the addressing schemes were pretty convoluted, but now, it is quite >simple, at least to get from *here* to *them*, if not necessarily the other >way around. [...] > mailbox.number@mci.com MCI Mail boxes are arranged as phone numbers, like 367-9829 (my old box). To address a MCI mail box, you can use that number exactly, with the dash, or without the dash (3679829). MCI Mail sends to Internet the mailbox number without the dash, and 2 zero's prefixed ("003679829@mcimail.com" is what it would look like from MCI Mail). >................... As for AT&T, MCI and Compuserve, maybe someone from >those places reading the Digest can send along the methodology involved >in getting mail to the Internet. PT] In MCI Mail, at the "Command:" prompt, type "CR" (for create letter). At the "To:" prompt, type the name of the person you are sending to, followed by "(EMS)" (with the paretheses (sp?)), like so: To: Joe Blow (ems) Then, it will ask for the EMS system, type "Internet", like so: EMS: Internet Then, it will ask for the MBX (mailbox) of the person, you type the internet address at this point: MBX: ranma@cup.portal.com MCI Mail does NOT have a smart mailer. So, if you mail to UUCP, Bitnet, etc, you have to use the gateways to get there, like so: MBX: bougus!address!ranma@uunet.uu.net MBX: ranma%address.UUCP@uunet.uu.net (this assumes the machine "address" is in the published UUCP maps). MCI Mail polls NRI (their mail gateway) every 30 minutes. In MCI Mail, you can send to a person by their name, but that is an interactive session where if there was more than one match, you get to pick the right person on MCI Mail. Mail from the Internet, you can't do that, so you must know the MCI Mailbox number of that person. The MCI Mail recepient does not see the Internet routing headers when they recieve mail. The Internet mail can be directly "REplied" to in MCI Mail. Your Internet address can be part of a "list" on someones MCI Mail acct (alaiases). MCI Mail will send a message to the originator (on MCI Mail) if the message has not been delivered (because of TCP foul-ups, host down, etc.) It will keep trying for 3 days, the it will return the message as undeliverable. On Lotus Express, when you create a letter, at the To: prompt, hit "F9" to expand the address, the fill the "EMS" and "MBX" prompts like usual. Hope this helps. Robert Gutierrez from a borrowed account. ****IF YOU REPLY TO THIS ACCOUNT, make the Subject: "c/o Ranma"**** Na Choon Piaw P.O Box, 4067, Berkeley, CA 94704-0067 laba-2ac@web.berkeley.edu Disclaimer: I'm speaking only for myself!