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- Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 21:28:01 EDT
- From: Paul Robinson <FZC@CU.NIH.GOV>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: MCI Mail Automatic Autoforwarding (MCI Press Release)
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- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 679, Message 1 of 15
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- MCI MAIL INTRODUCES AUTOMATIC
- FORWARDING CAPABILITIES TO ENHANCE
- MESSAGING FLEXIBILITY
-
- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jane Levene
- (914) 934-6480
- Internet: 2671163@MCIMAIL.COM
-
- Corporation (MCI), today announced a new electronic mail feature which
- allows customers to automatically forward their incoming MCI Mail
- messages to any destination including other MCI Mail users, X.400
- recipients, and any fax, telex or postal address for a specified
- period of time. This new feature, AutoForward, is available
- immediately and gives MCI Mail users more control in managing their
- correspondence.
-
- The new functionality allows MCI Mail customers to have multiple
- AutoForward settings to control the starting/ending dates and the
- specific recipients or destinations for their autoforwarded messages.
- Customers with active settings are notified immediately when they log
- on to MCI Mail. Settings may be edited for future reactivation,
- cancelled to immediately terminate an active setting, or deleted
- entirely from a user's account.
-
- "The AutoForward feature is designed to make it easier for people to
- manage their day-to-day correspondence whether they are in or out of
- the office", said Jerry DeMartino, Vice-President of Sales and
- Marketing for MCI International, a subsidiary of MCI. "It is
- particularly useful for business executives, and people on vacation or
- personal leave who may not have immediate access to a PC. Customers
- can AutoForward messages to fax machines at their hotels. And market
- research suggests that AutoForward can be used to distribute market
- survey results and customer feedback. Other uses for AutoForward are
- limited only to our customers' imaginations."
-
- MCI Mail customers can use the Autoforward feature by typing CREATE
- AUTOFORWARD at the Command: prompt. MCI Mail will prompt the user to
- provide a start and end date, as well as the name they want to give
- their AutoForward setting and the recipients to whom they want their
- AutoForwarded messages delivered. Once the user has entered their
- setting information and confirmed that the information is accurate,
- the setting will become active based on the Start Date and Time
- provided by the user. For further details, customers may type HELP
- AUTOFORWARD at the on-line Command: prompt.
-
- MCI Mail provides a complete range of messaging services including
- electronic mail, EDI, X.400. fax, telex, hardcopy postal and courier
- delivery worldwide. Customers can access MCI Mail through a toll-free
- number in the U.S., through packet switched networks in over 90
- countries, or via MCI Mail Global Access, currently offered in 27
- countries.
-
- MCI offers a full spectrum of domestic and international
- communications services. In addition to electronic mail, other
- international services include worldwide direct dialing, MCI CALL USA,
- MCI WORLD REACH, 800 services, telex, private voice and data networks
- and television transmission. MCI offices in over 50 countries, Guam
- and Puerto Rico are positioned to provide and support the full range
- of global telecommunications services.
-
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-
- [Moderator's Note: With all these improvements MCI Mail is making to
- their system, I wonder why they still have not managed to bring their
- service into compliance with Internet mail standards. There is not a
- week goes by that mcimail.com does not dump out at least one and as
- often as not two or three issues of TELECOM Digest undelivered due to
- a bad name on the list or some other problem. The rule is supposed to
- be that delivery of the same email to multiple names is not affected
- because of one bad name: you skip that one and deliver to the others.
- Several dozen readers at mcimail.com don't get their copy because MCI
- dumps the whole load. Of course then I have to pull the bad name from
- the list and resend the issue to everyone there. My solution soon will
- be to discontinue delivery of the Digest to MCI Mail and send subscrib-
- ers there a note suggesting they bring pressure on MCI Mail honchos
- to join the rest of the email world in conforming to standards set up
- to serve everyone. I've tried calling MCI Mail about this; I get
- nowhere fast. PAT]
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