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: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Internet Gateways to Commercial Networks Message-ID: Date: 5 Sep 89 20:17:12 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA Lines: 27 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 4 of 7 >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. Sending mail from MCI Mail to the Internet works the same way as from MCI mail to any other network to which they have a gateway. You give the "EMS" option after the recipient's address, then the network name "Internet" and for the mailbox address, the Internet address of the recipient. The gateway is very well implemented and does a good job of preserving mail addresses so you can respond to them smoothly. When sending into MCI Mail, the mailbox number is written with no punctuation, so my address there is 0001037498@mci.com. I have seen no documentation for this gateway, but since at the moment messages pass both ways for free (not even the usual MCI Mail message charge) I can hardly complain. >From Compuserve, you give an address like ">INTERNET: user@site.domain" on the address line. HELP INTERNET gives more info. Inbound, the two parts of the Compuserve user number are separated by a dot, rather than the usual comma. I don't use AT&T Mail, but my understanding is that it acts somewhat like a very large uucp site, and regular uucp bang syntax should work. -- John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 492 3869 johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us, {ima|lotus}!esegue!johnl, Levine@YALE.edu Massachusetts has 64 licensed drivers who are over 100 years old. -The Globe