Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: John Cowan Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: TYMNET/MCIMail Message-ID: <3391@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 31 Jan 90 15:52:59 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Cowan Organization: ESCC, New York City Lines: 62 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 66, message 8 of 8 The Telecom Digest moderator writes: >[Using the full name when sending to mcimail.com] >only works provided you are *certain* the >user name is unique. Unlike actually being on MCI Mail, internetters >don't get the option of making a selection from a menu of John Smiths. >That's why the numerical address method is preferred. Take no chances, >and insure your mail gets to the right party. Actually, you do get this menu, in a funny kind of way. I sent mail to Steve_Manes@mcimail.com and got the following bounce message: From hombre!nri.reston.va.us!mmdf Wed Jan 24 08:22:38 1990 Return-Path: Received: by marob.masa.com (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.18.1 #18.7) id ; Wed, 24 Jan 90 08:22 EST Received: by hombre.MASA.COM (smail2.5) id AA00389; 24 Jan 90 08:19:48 EST (Wed) Received: from NRI.RESTON.VA.US by rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.3/3.05) id AA22079; Tue, 23 Jan 90 16:52:24 EST Date: Tue, 23 Jan 90 16:37:13 EST From: nri.reston.va.us!Postmaster Sender: nri.reston.va.us!mmdf Subject: MCI Mail rejected a message. To: marob.masa.com!cowan Message-Id: <9001231637.aa11701@NRI.NRI.Reston.VA.US> Status: R The following mail message could not be forwarded to MCI Mail for the following Recipients: To: Steve Manes MCI Mail stated the message could not be sent because: At least one problem with envelope 608 More than 1 MCI Mail user matches recipient information MCI ID Name Organization Location 258-3059 Steve Manes Magpie New York, NY 360-8470 Steve Manes PC Mag Column Seattle WA TO: Steve Manes EMS: MCI Mail MBX: Steve Manes 615 Message must include at least one TO: recipient Your message follows: [My message appeared here.] I then resent to the appropriate Steve Manes using the MCI ID, and all was well. BTW, the message took about three days to make it through the Internet side to MCI Mail. I don't have the details, unfortunately; does anybody know the response time of the gateway itself? How often does it poll MCI Mail? [Moderator's Note: There are about a dozen readers of TELECOM Digest who receive their copies through MCI Mail, and one with who I am personally acquainted (we've known each other for years) says his copies are always there in the morning, a few hours after they leave here each day. PT]