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- From: nauen@wrair-emh1.army.mil
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: ATTMail to MCIMail and X.400 gateway(?)
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 12:10:27 -0600
- Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
- Lines: 90
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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.
- >
- > My Internet address is "alanb@quality1.attmail.com" and my friend's
- > Internet address is in the form of
- > "company/machine/logon%1234567@mcimail.com".
- >
- > When my friend attempts to send me e-mail, he gets a bounce stating
- > something to the effect of "MCImail does not permit communications to
- > ATTmail via the Internet."
- >
- > When I try sending e-mail, the problems are even worse. My machine
- > doesn't support TCP-IP, so I've got to use a UUCP equivalent of his
- > address. If I use the full pathname (company/machine/logon), the mail is
- > bounced by the attmail machine. If I omit the pathname and just use the
- > logon, I get the following bounce from mmdf@MCIMail.com:
- >
- > The MCI Mial/INTERNET gateway System
- > encountered the following violations:
- >
- > Delivery to MCI Mail from attmail.com
- > via the Internet is not permitted.
- >
- > I tried calling MCIMail for help. . . .
-
-
- It looks to me like you are still trying to send your mail via Internet,
- when you should not be using Internet at all. You are talking about
- uucp, which is your path to Internet, and mcimail.com, which is an
- Internet address. Suggest that you forget them.
-
- (It's nice to know that MCI and AT&T are not trying to cut costs by routing
- mail between them via Internet, at someone else's expense.)
-
- I think that you should be getting help from AT&T, since that is where
- you are located, instead of from MCI. Or even better, perhaps, would
- be competent assistance from the private system (quality1?) where you
- have your account. However, that may not be available.
-
- AT&T Mail Customer Assistance Center (ATTMAIL-DOM)
- 5000 Hadley Road
- South Plainsfield, NJ 07080
- Domain Name: ATTMAIL.COM
- Technical Contact:
- AT&T Mail Customer Assistance, postmaster@attmail.com
- 1 (800) MAIL-672
-
- Before calling them, you might want to experiment with variations of
-
- c=us;admd=mci;o=(company/machine/logon);dda.id=(1234567) or
-
- c=us;admd=mci;dda.id=(company/machine/logon%1234567)
-
- But you really need AT&T's instructions for sending mail to MCI, which
- will probably have nothing to do with either uucp or Internet. And you
- need to ask them what your X400 address is, so that you can tell others.
- It is most definitely _not_ "alanb@quality1.attmail.com"
-
- It's your friend who should be getting help from MCI. They will most
- likely tell him to use something like
-
- CREATE
-
- TO: (Your surname) (EMS)
- EMS: ATTMail
- MBX: PR=(Your mail system name)
- MBX: GI=Alan
- MBX: OR=(Your organization) (Optional)
- MBX: <CR>
-
- But before he can try it, he needs to know what AT&T considers to be
- your X400 mail system name and your organization, if required.
-
- My experience with the ATTMail help desk has been that they sometimes
- take several tries before they a) understand the question and b) provide
- a correct answer. But perseverance pays off, especially when you send
- them actual copies of futile efforts to use their advice.
-
- If they give you a written set of instructions, I'd appreciate a copy.
-
- (i.e, _from_ ATTMAIL _to_ MCI or other X400 systems)
-
- Ric <nauen@wrair-emh1.army.mil> <nauen%wrmain.decnet@detrick-emh1.army.mil>
- ^^^^^Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
- U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command
-
-