--
Be seeing you...
--Lang Zerner
la...@asylum.sf.ca.us UUCP:bionet!asylum!langz ARPA:la...@athena.mit.edu
"...and every morning we had to go and LICK the road clean with our TONGUES!"
[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.
A few examples I use frequently: attmail!user...@att.com
mailbox...@mci.com
7xxxx...@compuserve.com
first...@zone.net.node.fidonet.org
Going to Fido, 'fidonet.org' causes the mail to route to the assigned gateway
or the default gateway, based on the node and net. To write us, Fido people
address their mail to username: uucp; at one of the gateway addresses. The
first line of text MUST say: "To: user...@site.domain" and the second line
of text MUST be blank. 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]
| 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
From CompuServe, the form is >INTERNET:us...@site.domain or
>INTERNET:bang!path!sequence!user. The greater-than sign and the colon are
required; I don't know whether capitalizing the word "INTERNET" is vital.
The word INTERNET is used even for sites that are not actually on the
Internet: for example, I regularly exchange mail between CompuServe and
pubnet sites with this syntax.
At present CIS is not yet surcharging for such mail.
David Tamkin dat...@jolnet.orpk.il.us {attctc,netsys,ddsw1}!jolnet!dattier
Post Office Box 813 GEnie: D.W.TAMKIN BIX: dattier CIS: 73720,1570
Rosemont, Illinois 60018-0813 voice mail: (312) 693-0591, (708) 518-6769
>internet:user@domain
That's all there is to it. From MCI Mail to Internet, the procedure involves
specifying:
TO: Username (EMS)
EMS: Internet
MBX: user@domain
Scott Loftesness
7670...@COMPUSERVE.COM (SysOp of the HamNet Amateur Radio/SWL Forum)
1) Use the "CREATE" command as usual.
2) At the "TO:" prompt, type in the person's name followed by
"(ems)". In other words, follow the person's name with the
letters "ems" in parentheses. The person's name is really
not used, but is useful for user-friendly purposes.
3) MCI Mail will notice the "(ems)" and prompt you for an
External Mail System (EMS). At the "EMS:" prompt, type
"internet". There are other networks you can use here,
by the way -- type "HELP EMS" to find out what they are.
4) Next, MCI Mail will prompt you for the mailbox. At the
"MBX:" prompt, type in the Internet address. I.e.
"e...@goldhill.com".
5) MCI Mail will then ask you to verify the address name and
then will continue with further "TO:" prompts.
6) You can use the same process for the "CC:" prompts.
7) Everything else is as usual.
-- Eric (00039...@mcimail.com) [ugh!]
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
00010...@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: us...@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
jo...@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us, {ima|lotus}!esegue!johnl, Lev...@YALE.edu
Massachusetts has 64 licensed drivers who are over 100 years old. -The Globe
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 ("0036...@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: ra...@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!ra...@uunet.uu.net
<or>
MBX: ranma%addres...@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
<ra...@cup.portal.com> 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...@web.berkeley.edu Disclaimer: I'm speaking only for myself!
To send mail to FidoNet use: first...@zone.net.node.fidonet.org
The actual addressing should look like:
First...@fNODE.nNET.zZONE.fidonet.org
So to send to Bob Smith at 1:2/3 the address would look like:
Bob....@f3.n2.z1.fidonet.org
--
Ken Levitt - via FidoNet node 1:16/390
UUCP: ...harvard!talcott!zorro9!levitt
INTERNET: levitt%zorro...@talcott.harvard.edu