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- From: James.Gorak <James.Gorak@mixcom.mixcom.com>
- Subject: Re: ATTMail to MCIMail and X.400 gateway(?)
- Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 07:18:13 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.071813.26267@mixcom.com>
- References: <9212281504.AA18147@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu>
- Sender: ccvvcc@mixcom.com (James Gorak)
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- In <9212281504.AA18147@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu
- > alanb@Quality1.attmail.com writes:
-
- >I am experiencing great difficulty in establishing e-mail communications with
- >a friend. My friend's employer uses MCIMail and my Internet gateway is
- >through ATTMail.
-
- (part deleted...)
-
- >Can anyone help me put together the missing pieces? Any help would be greatly
- >appreciated! Please e-mail all responses to "alanb@quality1.attmail.com" (I
- >don't have access to Usenet, so please use e-mail).
-
- Here is info from MCI Mail help files on exchanging messages with ATT
- Mail via the X.400 gateway. You may want to check the ATT Mail help
- files for info on entering X.400 addresses on the ATT Mail system.
-
- If you can get these instructions to your friend who is on MCI Mail, you
- friend can than attempt to send you a message by following the MCI Mail
- X.400 instructions. When you (hopefully) receive your friends message
- you can check the "From:" line to see how your friends return address
- looks on your system. If it works your home free. If it does not work
- have your friend call the MCI Mail help desk and request assistance from
- an X.400 specialist. I have hade similar difficulities but have always
- been able to resolve them with a some effort and sometimes assistance
- MCI Mail's customer service help desk.
-
- +--------------------------------------+
- | Command: HELP ATTMAIL |
- +--------------------------------------+
-
- Now you can exchange electronic mail with US AT&T Mail
- subscribers and private systems connected to AT&T Mail. It's as
- easy as sending an MCI Mail message.
-
- And during the special introductory period, there is no
- additional charge. You pay the same prices as for any MCI Mail
- Instant Letter.
-
- All you need to know is your AT&T Mail recipient's E-mail
- address.
-
- Type HELP X400 TERMS for an explanation of X.400 addressing
- terms.
-
- Type HELP ADDRESS ATTMAIL for details on addressing the envelope
- for an AT&T Mail recipient.
-
- Type HELP X400 RECEIVE for details on how to provide your AT&T
- Mail correspondents your MCI Mail address.
-
- +--------------------------------------+
- | Command: HELP ADDRESS ATTMAIL |
- +--------------------------------------+
-
- Using X.400 addressing, you can exchange messages with AT&T Mail
- subscribers and private systems connected to AT&T Mail.
-
- ------------------------------------
- Addressing AT&T Mail Subscribers:
- ------------------------------------
- To send a message to an AT&T Mail subscriber, you need to know
- your recipient's AT&T Mail address (also known as their O/R
- name). The best way to guarantee you have the correct
- information is to check with your correspondent.
-
- Generally, an X.400 E-mail address consists of a mail system
- name (ATTMail), the country in which the mail system operates
- (US), and a personal name (broken into Surname and Given name).
- MCI Mail does not require you to supply the Country, however.
-
- If the AT&T Mail subscriber has a fairly common name, you should
- include their AT&T Mail Username to ensure delivery. The AT&T
- Mail Username is usually the person's first initial followed by
- their last name. See Note 1 for special instructions when
- including the AT&T Mail Username.
-
- Directions on how to address an AT&T Mail subscriber from MCI
- Mail follow. Create your message and type your recipient's last
- name on the TO or CC line. Type (EMS) following the name. At
- the EMS prompt, enter ATTMail. In the MBX lines that follow,
- type the rest of your AT&T Mail recipient's name. You must label
- the information you enter. Place an equal sign between the
- label and the information. Note, there CANNOT be any spaces
- before or after the equal sign.
-
- The valid X.400 labels are:
-
- SU=Surname (or Last name)
- GI=Given name (or first name)
- IN=Initials
- GE=Generational Qualifier
- OR=Organization
- UN=Organization Unit
- PR=Private domain (PRMD)
- DDA=Domain-defined Attribute
-
- What you enter:
- (Note that few labels are required)
-
- CREATE
-
- TO: Recipient's Last name (EMS)
- EMS: ATTMail
- MBX: GI=Recipient's First name
- MBX: (carriage return)
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------
- Note 1. Addressing an AT&T Mail subscriber by his/her Username:
- --------------------------------------------------------------
- When an AT&T Mail subscriber's name is not unique on AT&T Mail,
- it is necessary to supply his/her Username in the address. This
- is done with a Domain Defined Attribute (DDA). The Username is
- entered in the MBX line and is preceeded by: DDA=ID= There
- cannot be any spaces between the equal sign and the AT&T Mail
- Username.
-
- What you enter:
-
- CREATE
-
- TO: Recipient's Last name (EMS)
- EMS: ATTMail
- MBX: GI=Recipient's First name
- MBX: DDA=ID=Recipient's AT&T Mail Username
- MBX: (carriage return)
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------
- Addressing Messages to X.400 PRMDs connected to AT&T Mail
- ---------------------------------------------------------
- To address a message to someone on a private mail system (PRMD)
- connected to AT&T Mail, enter the X.400 address information that
- the private system needs to deliver the message to your
- correspondent. Check with your correspondent to determine which
- O/R name attributes (or components) are required to send him/her
- messages.
-
- A message to a private e-mail system (PRMD) connected to AT&T
- Mail is created the same way a message to a AT&T Mail subscriber
- is created. Note that an additional X.400 component, the PRMD,
- is required and placed in an MBX line.
-
- What you enter:
-
- CREATE
-
- TO: Recipient's Surname (EMS)
- EMS: ATTMail
- MBX: PR=Recipient's mail system name
- MBX: GI=Recipient's First name
- MBX: OR=Recipient's Organization Optional
- MBX: (carriage return)
-
- If additional information is required
- to ensure delivery, be sure to enter
- it, appropriately labeled, in the MBX
- lines.
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------
- Addressing Messages to AT&T Mail Remote Electronic Mail Systems
- (Non-standard Gateways)
- ---------------------------------------------------------------
- To address a message to someone on a remote mail system
- connected via a non-standard gateway to AT&T Mail, additional
- address information must be entered. To ensure accuracy, check
- with your correspondent for their correct address.
-
- A message to an AT&T remote system is created in much the same
- way a message to a AT&T Mail subscriber is created. Note that
- two additional addressing components are required. These are
- Organization and DDA. They are labeled OR= and DDA= and are
- placed in an MBX line.
-
- What you enter:
-
- CREATE
-
- TO: Recipient's Surname (EMS)
- EMS: ATTMail
- MBX: GI=Recipient's First name
- MBX: OR=Recipient's Organization
- MBX: DDA=ID=System Path(b)USERNAME
- MBX: (carriage return)
-
- For UNIX destinations -
-
- MBX: DDA=ID=<Unix System>(b)Username
-
- For PROFS destinations -
-
- MBX: DDA=ID=<PROFS System>(b)Username
-
- For 3780 destinations -
-
- MBX: DDA=ID=<3780 System>(b)Username
-
-
- +--------------------------------------+
- | Command: HELP X400 RECEIVE |
- +--------------------------------------+
-
- What is your MCI Mail X.400 Address?
-
- X.400, the internationally approved standard for connecting
- electronic mail systems, has made possible the interconnection
- of MCI Mail and X.400-based private (corporate mail systems) and
- public electronic mail services.
-
- MCI Mail subscribers and connected systems may exchange E-mail
- messages with Telemail and AT&T Mail subscribers as well as
- private systems connected to Telemail and AT&T Mail.
-
- MCI Mail subscribers should provide their O/R names to the
- people with whom they wish to communicate. Generally, here is
- the information you should provide:
-
- ADMD MCI
- Country US
- Surname Your last name (as registered on MCI Mail)
- Given name Your first name (as registered on MCI Mail)
-
- If your name is fairly common, and the above information is not
- sufficient to uniquely identify you on MCI Mail, provide the
- following additional information:
-
- DDA "ID" plus your unique MCI ID. (See note 1 below.)
- Organization Your organization. (See note 2 below.)
-
- If your mailbox is not in the name of an individual, then the
- entire mailbox name should be considered the Surname.
-
- To find your MCI ID and Organization, type FIND NAME followed by
- your name. Your name, MCI ID, and Organization - as registered
- on MCI Mail - will be displayed.
-
- O/R name example:
-
- This is the O/R name MCI Mail subscriber Tom Matthews should
- provide to those who wish to send him X.400 messages:
-
- ADMD MCI
- Country US
- Surname Matthews
- Givenname Thomas (He is registered on MCI Mail as Thomas, not Tom.)
- DDA ID=1234567 (His MCI Mail ID)
-
- Note 1 -- A Domain-defined attribute with your unique MCI Mail
- ID is the most accurate way to ensure that a message will be
- able to be delivered to your MCI Mailbox. When you provide this
- information, tell your correspondent that they should use a DDA
- with a type ID and the value is your 7 digit MCI ID.
-
- Note 2 -- Organization sometimes helps identify a subscriber.
- However, you need to be very careful with this component. If
- you did not register an organization at the time you registered
- your MCI Mail account, or you have changed your organization but
- not notified MCI Mail, do not use this component. If someone
- sends you a message and includes an incorrect (or partially
- correct) organization, the message cannot be delivered to your
- mailbox -- even if everything else is correct!
-
- Also note that MCI Mail does not use Organization Unit to
- identify MCI Mail subscribers. Do not provide one to your
- correspondent.
-
- Type HELP X400 TERMS for more information on X.400 addressing
- terminology.
-
- +--------------------------------------+
- | Command: HELP X400 TERMS |
- +--------------------------------------+
- In order to properly exchange messages with X.400 mail
- services, it is important to understand a little X.400
- addressing terminology.
-
- O/R Name is a common term. It means originator/recipient name.
- It is made up of several components. They are:
-
- ADMD - or Adminstrative Management Domain. This is a public
- E-mail service. MCI is an ADMD. Telemail and AT&T Mail are
- also ADMDs.
-
- PRMD or Private Management Domain. This is a private -- usually
- a corporate -- electronic mail system that is connected via
- X.400 to an ADMD.
-
- Country - the country in which the domain (PRMD or ADMD) resides.
-
- Personal name is made up of the following 4 components:
- - Surname - a person's last name.
- - Given name - a person's first name.
- - Initials - a person's initial(s).
- - Generation Qualifier - Jr., Sr. for example.
-
- Organization - the name of the organization to which a person
- belongs.
-
- Organizational Unit - the department or division of an organization.
-
- Domain-defined attribute (DDA) - a special field that helps the
- receiving system know how to deliver a message to the recipient.
-
- MCI has designed brief labels for each O/R name component. Use
- these labels when addressing an X.400 recipient:
-
- Label O/R name component
- PR PRMD or Private Domain
- SU Surname
- GI Given name
- IN Initials
- GE Generational Qualifier
- OR Organization
- UN Organizational Unit
- DD or DDA Domain-defined Attribute
-
- Note there is no label for ADMD. MCI Mail subscribers place
- that value in the EMS field.
-
- Regards,
- --
- James.Gorak@mixcom.com
-