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- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 04:41:10 EST
- From: FZC@CU.NIH.GOV
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Internet and Easylink
- Reply-To: TDARCOS@MCIMAIL.COM
- Message-ID: <telecom13.6.8@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 6, Message 8 of 10
- Lines: 69
-
- In last year's TELECOM Digest 12-928, a user named dnewcomb@whale.st.
- usm.edu (Donald R. Newcomb) was overheard discussing "EasyLink and
- Internet?":
-
- > I have long understood that sending email between EasyLink and
- > Internet was out of the question.
-
- It's not; Pat sends us TELECOM Digest to our Easylink Mailbox every
- day. Easylink autoforwards all of our mail to our fax machine at no
- charge, so as a result, we get TELECOM Digest delivered to our fax
- machine automatically and it costs us nothing except fax paper. (It's
- a plain paper machine, so it's only a couple of cents a page.)
-
- Last week I figured out how to send a message FROM an Easylink
- subscriber TO Internet. I used it in order to subscribe to some
- Bitnet lists. I'll mention both ways for anyone interested.
-
- To send to someone's Easylink address, you must know the *exact*
- Easylink number. This is an eight-digit number which always begins
- with 62. Then you have to know the gateway, which is complicated,
- then the splitting scheme, then the addressee.
-
- What you are doing is translating an Internet RFC822 address into a
- CCITT X.400 address (or back).
-
- There are two ways to get to someone's Easylink address. One is via
- MCI Mail and the other through AT&T Mail.
-
- To go through MCI Mail, you'd use the following:
-
- g=firstname%s=lastname%dda.eln=62xxxxxx%4356996@MCIMAIL.COM
- or
- s=firstname_lastname%dda.eln=62xxxxxx%western_union@MCIMAIL.COM
- or
- g=firstname%s=lastname%dda.eln=62xxxxxx%western_union@MCIMAIL.COM
-
- All of these are identical; 4356996 is Western Union's gateway account
- on MCI Mail. This is how Pat sends us the TELECOM Digest.
-
- To go through AT&T Easylink (Western Union is a subsidiary of AT&T),
- you'd use the following:
-
- wu/s=firstname_lastname/dda.eln=62xxxxxx@mhs.attmail.com
- or
- mhs!wu/g=firstname/s=lastname/dda.eln=62xxxxxx@attmail.com
-
- In all of these, the two things which are mandatory are s=name and
- dda.eln=62xxxxxx, and you can optionally use the g= format for first
- name. If you want a blank in the middle of the name, you insert an
- underline _ which is why it is there.
-
- To _send_ from Easylink is much harder. It consists of sending an IPM
- (their name for X.400) message to the ATTMAIL ADMD, with an id of:
-
- ID-!i!n!t!e!r!n!e!t!!hostname!!user
-
- Where an address of user@hostname is translated into the UUCP style
- hostname!user. For example, this account becomes:
-
- ID-!I!N!T!E!R!N!E!T!!FZC!!CU.NIH.GOV
-
- This is required because the ID of "internet" has to be in {lower
- case} in order for AT&T mail to forward to it.
-
-
- Paul Robinson -- TDARCOS@MCIMAIL.COM
- These opinions are mine alone
-
-