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- This list is current as of 04 April 1991, I think (but then,
- one never knows: things change so rapidly).
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- Ajay.
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- Contents:
- I : The Internetworking Guide
- II: Networks NOT(yet) reachable from Internet.
- --------
-
- Inter-Network Mail Guide - Copyright 1990 by John J. Chew
- $Header: netmail,v 1.12 90/07/06 20:38:28 john Exp $
-
- COPYRIGHT NOTICE
-
- This document is Copyright 1990 by John J. Chew. All rights reserved.
- Permission for non-commercial distribution is hereby granted, provided
- that this file is distributed intact, including this copyright notice
- and the version information above. Permission for commercial distribution
- can be obtained by contacting the author as described below.
-
- INTRODUCTION
-
- This file documents methods of sending mail from one network to another.
- It represents the aggregate knowledge of the readers of comp.mail.misc
- and many contributors elsewhere. If you know of any corrections or
- additions to this file, please read the file format documentation below
- and then mail to me: John J. Chew <poslfit@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>. If
- you do not have access to electronic mail (which makes me wonder about
- the nature of your interest in the subject, but there does seem to be
- a small such population out there) you can call me during the month of
- July at +1 416 979 7166 between 11:00 and 24:00 EDT (UTC-4h) and most
- likely talk to my answering machine (:-).
-
- DISTRIBUTION
-
- (news) This list is posted monthly to Usenet newsgroups comp.mail.misc and
- news.newusers.questions.
- (mail) I maintain a growing list of subscribers who receive each monthly
- issue by electronic mail, and recommend this to anyone planning to
- redistribute the list on a regular basis.
- (FTP) Internet users can fetch this guide by anonymous FTP as ~ftp/pub/docs/
- internetwork-mail-guide on Ra.MsState.Edu (130.18.80.10 or 130.18.96.37)
- [Courtesy of Frank W. Peters]
- (Listserv) Bitnet users can fetch this guide from the Listserv at UNMVM.
- Send mail to LISTSERV@UNMVM with blank subject and body consisting of
- the line "GET NETWORK GUIDE". [Courtesy of Art St. George]
-
- HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE
-
- Each entry in this file describes how to get from one network to another.
- To keep this file at a reasonable size, methods that can be generated by
- transitivity (A->B and B->C gives A->B->C) are omitted. Entries are sorted
- first by source network and then by destination network. This is what a
- typical entry looks like:
-
- #F mynet
- #T yournet
- #R youraddress
- #C contact address if any
- #I send to "youraddress@thegateway"
-
- For parsing purposes, entries are separated by at least one blank line,
- and each line of an entry begins with a `#' followed by a letter. Lines
- beginning with `# ' are comments and need not be parsed. Lines which do
- not start with a `#' at all should be ignored as they are probably mail
- or news headers.
-
- #F (from) and #T (to) lines specify source and destination networks.
- If you're sending me information about a new network, please give me
- a brief description of the network so that I can add it to the list
- below. The abbreviated network names used in #F and #T lines should
- consist only of the characters a-z, 0-9 and `-' unless someone can
- make a very convincing case for their favourite pi character.
-
- These are the currently known networks with abbreviated names:
-
- applelink AppleLink (Apple Computer, Inc.'s in-house network)
- attmail AT&T Mail,AT&T's commercial e-mail service.
- bitnet international academic network
- bix Byte Information eXchange: Byte magazine's commercial BBS
- bmug Berkeley Macintosh Users Group
- compuserve commercial time-sharing service
- connect Connect Professional Information Network (commercial)
- easynet Easynet (DEC's in-house mail system)
- envoy Envoy-100 (Canadian commercial mail service)
- fax Facsimile document transmission
- fidonet PC-based BBS network
- geonet GeoNet Mailbox Systems (commercial)
- internet the Internet
- mci MCI's commercial electronic mail service
- mfenet Magnetic Fusion Energy Network
- nasamail NASA internal electronic mail
- peacenet non-profit mail service
- sinet Schlumberger Information NETwork
- span Space Physics Analysis Network (includes HEPnet)
- sprintmail Sprint's commercial mail service (formerly Telemail)
- thenet Texas Higher Education Network
-
- #R (recipient) gives an example of an address on the destination network,
- to make it clear in subsequent lines what text requires subsitution.
-
- #C (contact) gives an address for inquiries concerning the gateway,
- expressed as an address reachable from the source (#F) network.
- Presumably, if you can't get the gateway to work at all, then knowing
- an unreachable address on another network will not be of great help.
-
- #I (instructions) lines, of which there may be several, give verbal
- instructions to a user of the source network to let them send mail
- to a user on the destination network. Text that needs to be typed
- will appear in double quotes, with C-style escapes if necessary.
-
- /* Additions */
- /*
- Given below are the additions made, along with the sender's address:
-
- Network Description Sender
-
- UNINet Network in Rep. of SA Erik Proper (erik@cs.kun.nl)
- SIGNet Network in Rep. of SA Erik Proper (erik@cs.kun.nl)
- EcoNet Similar to PeaceNet Brian Coan (brian@igc.org)
- gsfcmail NASA Goddard Space Flight Center mail system
- DWEISSMAN@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov
-
- */
-
- #F applelink
- #T internet
- #R user@domain
- #I send to "user@domain@internet#"
- #I domain can be be of the form "site.bitnet", address must be <35 characters
-
- #F AT&T Mail (attmail)
- #T internet
- #R internet!domain!user
- #C AT&T Mail Customer Assisistance Center, 1-800-624-5672 (1-800-MAIL-672)
- #I For an address "user@domain", send to "internet!domain!user".
-
- #F bitnet
- #T internet
- #R user@domain
- #I Methods for sending mail from Bitnet to the Internet vary depending on
- #I what mail software is running at the Bitnet site in question. In the
- #I best case, users should simply be able to send mail to "user@domain".
- #I If this doesn't work, try "user%domain@gateway" where "gateway" is a
- #I regional Bitnet-Internet gateway site. Finally, if neither of these
- #I works, you may have to try hand-coding an SMTP envelope for your mail.
- #I If you have questions concerning this rather terse note, please try
- #I contacting your local postmaster or system administrator first before
- #I you send me mail -- John Chew <poslfit@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
-
- #F compuserve
- #T fax
- #R +1 415 555 1212
- #I send to "FAX 14155551212" (only to U.S.A.)
-
- #F compuserve
- #T internet
- #R user@domain
- #I send to ">INTERNET:user@domain"
-
- #F compuserve
- #T mci
- #R 123-4567
- #I send to ">MCIMAIL:123-4567"
-
- #F connect
- #T internet
- #R user@domain
- #I send to CONNECT id "DASNET"
- #I first line of message: "\"user@domain\"@DASNET"
-
- #F easynet
- #T bitnet
- #R user@site
- #C DECWRL::ADMIN
- #I from VMS use NMAIL to send to "nm%DECWRL::\"user@site.bitnet\""
- #I from Ultrix
- #I send to "user@site.bitnet" or if that fails
- #I (via IP) send to "\"user%site.bitnet\"@decwrl.dec.com"
- #I (via DECNET) send to "DECWRL::\"user@site.bitnet\""
-
- #F easynet
- #T fidonet
- #R john smith at 1:2/3.4
- #C DECWRL::ADMIN
- #I from VMS use NMAIL to send to
- #I "nm%DECWRL::\"john.smith@p4.f3.n2.z1.fidonet.org\""
- #I from Ultrix
- #I send to "john.smith@p4.f3.n2.z1.fidonet.org" or if that fails
- #I (via IP) send to "\"john.smith%p4.f3.n2.z1.fidonet.org\"@decwrl.dec.com"
- #I (via DECNET) send to "DECWRL::\"john.smith@p4.f3.n2.z1.fidonet.org\""
-
- #F easynet
- #T internet
- #R user@domain
- #C DECWRL::ADMIN
- #I from VMS use NMAIL to send to "nm%DECWRL::\"user@domain\""
- #I from Ultrix
- #I send to "user@domain" or if that fails
- #I (via IP) send to "\"user%domain\"@decwrl.dec.com"
- #I (via DECNET) send to "DECWRL::\"user@domain\""
-
- #F envoy
- #T internet
- #R user@domain
- #C ICS.TEST or ICS.BOARD
- #I send to "[RFC-822=\"user(a)domain\"]INTERNET/TELEMAIL/US
- #I for special characters, use @=(a), !=(b), _=(u), any=(three octal digits)
-
- #F fidonet
- #T internet
- #R user@domain
- #I send to "uucp" at nearest gateway site
- #I first line of message: "To: user@domain"
-
- #F geonet
- #T internet
- #R user@domain
- #I send to "DASNET"
- #I subject line: "user@domain!subject"
-
- #F GSFCMail
- #T internet
- #R user@domain
- #C cust.svc
- #I at the "To:" prompt type "POSTMAN"
- #I at the "Subject:" prompt enter the subject of your message
- #I at the "Text:" prompt, i.e. as the first line of your message,
- #I enter "To: user@domain"
- #I or use same directions as sprintmail to internet
-
- #F GSFCMail
- #T NASAMAIL
- #R userid
- #C cust.svc
- #I send to "(C:USA,ADMD:TELEMAIL,P:NASAMAIL,O:NASA,UN:userid)"
-
- #F GSFCMail
- #T span (now nsi-decnet)
- #R host::user
- #C cust.svc
- #I at the "To:" prompt enter "POSTMAN"
- #I at the "Subject:" prompt enter the subject of your message
- #I at the "Text:" prompt, i.e. as the first line of your message,
- #I enter "To: user@host.SPAN.NASA.GOV"
- #I or use GSFCCNE gateway and send to
- #I (C:USA,ADMD:TELEMAIL,P:GSFCCNE,O:SPAN,OU:host,SN:user)
-
- #F GSFCMail
- #T sprintmail
- #R (C:USA,ADMD:TELEMAIL,O:organization,UN:userid)
- #C cust.svc
- #I for public networks send to
- #I "(C:USA,ADMD:TELEMAIL,O:organization,UN:userid)"
- #I for private networks send to
- #I "(C:USA,ADMD:TELEMAIL,PRMD:private_net,O:organization,UN:userid)"
-
- #F internet
- #T applelink
- #R user
- #I send to "user@applelink.apple.com"
-
- #F internet
- #T attmail
- #R user@attmail.com
- #C AT&T Mail Customer Assisistance Center, 1-800-624-5672 (1-800-MAIL-672)
- #I For an address "attmail!user", send to "user@attmail.com"
-
- #F internet
- #T bitnet
- #R user@site
- #I send to "user%site.bitnet@gateway" where "gateway" is a gateway host that
- #I is on both the internet and bitnet. Some examples of gateways are:
- #I cunyvm.cuny.edu mitvma.mit.edu. Check first to see what local policies
- #I are concerning inter-network forwarding.
-
- #F internet
- #T bix
- #R user
- #I send to "user@dcibix.das.net"
-
- #F internet
- #T bmug
- #R John Smith
- #I send to "John.Smith@bmug.fidonet.org"
-
- #F internet
- #T compuserve
- #R 71234,567
- #I send to "71234.567@compuserve.com"
- #I note: Compuserve account IDs are pairs of octal numbers. Ordinary
- #I consumer CIS user IDs begin with a `7' as shown.
-
- #F internet
- #T connect
- #R NAME
- #I send to "NAME@dcjcon.das.net"
-
- #F internet
- #T easynet
- #R HOST::USER
- #C admin@decwrl.dec.com
- #I send to "user@host.enet.dec.com" or "user%host.enet@decwrl.dec.com"
-
- #F internet
- #T easynet
- #R John Smith @ABC
- #C admin@decwrl.dec.com
- #I send to "John.Smith@ABC.MTS.DEC.COM"
- #I (This syntax is for All-In-1 users.)
-
- #F internet
- #T econet
- #R user
- #C <support@igc.org>
- #I send to "user@igc.org"
-
-
- #F internet
- #T envoy
- #R userid
- #C POSTMASTER@SPRINT.COM for second method only
- #I send to "att!attmail!mhs!envoy!userid@UUNET.UU.NET"
- #I or through US Sprint's X.400 gateway to
- #I "/C=CA/ADMD=TELECOM.CANADA/O=ENVOY/DD.ID=userid/@SPRINT.COM"
-
- #F internet
- #T fidonet
- #R john smith at 1:2/3.4
- #I send to "john.smith@p4.f3.n2.z1.fidonet.org"
-
- #F internet
- #T geonet
- #R user at host
- #I send to "user:host@map.das.net"
- #I American host is geo4, European host is geo1.
-
- #F internet
- #T GSFCMail
- #R userid
- #C postmaster@ames.arc.nasa.gov
- #I send to "user@GSFCMAIL.NASA.GOV"
-
- #F internet
- #T mci
- #R John Smith (123-4567)
- #I send to "1234567@mcimail.com"
- #I or send to "JSMITH@mcimail.com" if "JSMITH" is unique
- #I or send to "John_Smith@mcimail.com" if "John Smith" is unique - note the
- #I underscore!
- #I or send to "John_Smith/1234567@mcimail.com" if "John Smith" is NOT unique
-
- #F internet
- #T mfenet
- #R user@mfenode
- #I send to "user%mfenode.mfenet@nmfecc.arpa"
-
- #F internet
- #T nasamail
- #R user
- #C <postmaster@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
- #I send to "user@nasamail.nasa.gov"
-
- #F internet
- #T peacenet
- #R user
- #C <support@igc.org>
- #I send to "user@igc.org"
-
- #F internet
- #T signet (through FidoNet)
- #R John Smith at 27:2/3.4
- #I Send the message to John.Smith@f527.n2.z2.fidonet.org (that is the
- #I FidoNet to SigNet gateway).
- #I The first line of the message should be:
- #I @DOMAIN SIGNet 27:2/3.4 FidoNet 2:2/527
- #I For other persons at the signet, replace John.Smith and 27:2/3.4 by
- #I the proper person/node adrress.
- #I The sysop of the gateway can be reached at:
- #I andreas.levenitschnig@f527.n2.z2.fidonet.org
-
- #F internet
- #T sinet
- #R node::user or node1::node::user
- #I send to "user@node.SINet.SLB.COM" or "user%node@node1.SINet.SLB.COM"
-
-
- #F internet
- #T span (now nsi-decnet)
- #R host::user
- #C netmgr@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
- #I send to "user@host.SPAN.NASA.GOV"
-
- #F internet
- #T sprintmail
- #R (C:USA,ADMD:TELEMAIL,O:organization,UN:userid)
- #C postmaster@sprint.com
- #I for public networks send to
- #I "/C=US/ADMD=TELEMAIL/O=organization/DD.UN=userid/@SPRINT.COM"
- #I or if you know the recipients registered full name
- #I "/C=US/ADMD=TELEMAIL/O=organization/PN=firstname.lastname/@SPRINT.COM"
- #I for private networks send to
- #I "/C=USA/ADMD=TELEMAIL/PRMD=private_net/O=organization/DD.UN=userid/@SPRINT.COM"
-
- #F internet
- #T thenet
- #R user@host
- #I send to "user%host.decnet@utadnx.cc.utexas.edu"
-
- #F internet
- #T uninet (South Africa) (Through FidoNet)
- #R user.node
- #I Send the message to user.node@f4.n494.z5.fidonet.org
- #I A list of nodes in the uninet can be obtained by sending a message
- #I with SEND UNINODE
-
- #F mci
- #T internet
- #R John Smith <user@domain>
- #I at the "To:" prompt type "John Smith (EMS)"
- #I at the "EMS:" prompt type "internet"
- #I at the "Mbx:" prompt type "user@domain"
-
- #F nasamail
- #T internet
- #R user@domain
- #I at the "To:" prompt type "POSTMAN"
- #I at the "Subject:" prompt enter the subject of your message
- #I at the "Text:" prompt, i.e. as the first line of your message,
- #I enter "To: user@domain"
-
- #F sinet
- #T internet
- #R user@domain
- #I send to "M_MAILNOW::M_INTERNET::\"user@domain\""
- #I or "M_MAILNOW::M_INTERNET::domain::user"
-
- #F span (now nsi-decnet)
- #T GSFCMail
- #R userid
- #C mssdca::netmgr
- #I send to "AMES::\"user@GSFCMAIL.NASA.GOV"\"
-
- #F span
- #T internet
- #R user@domain
- #C nssdca::netmgr
- #I send to "AMES::\"user@domain\""
-
- #F sprintmail
- #T internet
- #R user@domain
- #C (c:usa,admd:telemail,o:telenet.tele,fn:technical,sn:support,i:t)
- #I send to "(C:USA,ADMD:TELEMAIL,PRMD:INTERNET,ID:<user(a)domain>)"
-
- #F thenet
- #T internet
- #R user@domain
- #I send to UTADNX::WINS%" user@domain "
-
- END
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- PART - II
-
- NETWORKS KNOWN *NOT* TO HAVE ACCESS FROM INTERNET
-
- Compiled by Raymond Chen <raymond@math.berkeley.edu> .
-
- Network Comments (and userids of people who asked about it
- and didn't post summaries)
- ------- ---------------------------------------------------
- American Online Masato Ogawa (ogawa@sm.sony.co.jp) confirms
- that there is no gateway.
-
- British Telecom rbatt@adam.adelaide.edu.au (R Batt) reports that
- Gold BT is a member of DialCom (qv).
-
- DialCom The gateway was shut down in March 1990 for financial
- reasons. Individual customers may have established
- private relays through the Commercial Mail Relay (CMR).
- Information available on the CMR is available from
- Intermail-Request@Intermail.ISI.EDU
-
- Dialog mcmahan@netcom.UUCP (Dave Mc Mahan) reports that
- nobody responded to his query in October 1990.
-
- Easylink a Western Union service
- bruceh@CV.HP.COM (Bruce Hauge) reports that as of March
- 1991 there is no gateway yet, but they're working on it.
-
- Eurokom christ@issun3.stc.nl (Brian Christiansen) reports that
- nobody responded to his query in February 1991.
-
- Fidelity Investments ea47916@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Eric Adams) reports that
- (Dallas) nobody responded to his query in February 1991.
-
- GEnie No gateway yet, but Bill Louden, the General Manager of
- GEnie, has stated publically that they are currently doing
- research into the feasibility of a gateway. Trust me,
- if such a gateway is set up, you'll hear about it.
-
- By the way, the machine genie.com is a red herring.
-
- GoldNet chaim@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Chaim Dworkin) reports that
- GoldNet is part of DialCom (qv).
-
- HandsNet oze3@quads.uchicago.edu (J. Daniel Ozeran) reports
- that nobody responded to his query in January 1991.
-
- Midas Internation headquarters in Chicago
- IO00393@MAINE.BITNET (Pete) reports that nobody
- responded to his querh in January 1991.
-
- Nifty-Serve a Japanese BBS
- suzuki@sai.vtt.fi (Makoto Suzuki) contacted the
- system operators and confirmed that there is no gateway.
-
- OMNET Craig E. Ward (cew@isi.edu) explains:
-
- Go either through Sprint Internet relay, Sprint.COM, or through the Commercial
- Mail Relay (CMR) at Intermail.ISI.EDU.
-
- Through the CMR, you can send mail to OMNET users with this format:
-
- "[omnet.user/OMNET]MAIL/USA%TELEMAIL"@Intermail.ISI.EDU
-
- Users on OMNET will need to use an embedded header, i.e. in the body of the
- message text (almost as ugly as X.400, but not quite) in a message to
- "[INTERMAIL/USCISI]SM66/USA" to get mail back to you:
-
- Forward: Internet
- To: Gumley_LE@cc.curtin.edu.au
- <Blank-Line>
-
- You can get more information about the Commercial Mail Relay from:
-
- Intermail-Request@Intermail.ISI.EDU
-
- Paranet vac163w@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (vacation) 4 Dec 90
- No summary has yet been posted, and personal email
- to this person is not answered.
-
- PC-Relay davidl@cix.compulink.co.uk (Dave Lambert) 21 Feb 91
- No summary has yet been posted, and personal email
- to Mr Lambert is not answered.
-
- Prodigy by IBM and Sears
- censors email
- charges the sender of the mail message
- Censorship details available from comp.risks issue 10.46.
-
- PROFS (general) PROFS is not a network. It is an electronic office system
- that has electronic mail as one of its components. Many
- companies purchase it from IBM and install it locally.
-
- PROFS (IBM) gt5116b@prism.gatech.EDU (Gaby Turek)
- reports that you send to username@vmmachine.iinus1.ibm.com,
- but the recipient must first have registered for internet
- access.
-
- QUICK-COMM GE Information Services E-Mail
- pegah@pleiades.cps.msu.edu (Mahmoud Pegah) reports
- that as of February 1991 there is no gateway, though
- one is under development.
-
- SABRE American Airlines' in-house reservation network.
- savel@hoss.unl.edu (Bharat P. Savel) reports that
- it has no gateway to any other network, and they
- intend to keep it that way.
-
- Telemail stevenst@infonode.ingr.com (Todd Stevens) 20 Feb 91
- Use the gateway at sprint.com This requires knowledge of the recipient's
- X.400 address on Telenet (now Sprintnet). Your SMTP address will look like
- this:
-
- smtp%"/dd.un=username/admd=telemail/o=gte/c=us/@sprint.com"
-
- the username will be the recipient's username on the system and o will be
- the organization.
-
- VNET (IBM) kkrueger@zeus.unomaha.edu (Kurt Krueger) 16 Feb 91
-
- Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (WELL)
- basiji@milton.u.washington.edu (David Basiji) reports that
- you send mail to username@well.sf.ca.usa
-
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