tbc@juniper04.cray.com (Tom Craig) (04/11/91)
Does anyone know anything about a mail system called "telemail"? A friend of mine who works at the Science Museum of Minnesota just got access to email through telemail. She is able to exchange mail with Palmer Station in Antarctica, fer cryin out loud, so they must go through the internet somewhere. Is this a commercial system that only allows the exchange of mail between clients, or is there a way to get mail to and from an internet site (specifically, here at Cray)? I have a hardcopy of a message that came from Palmer Station to the museum, and the only header information seems to be the address - myfriend@telemail. I tried to send mail to that address and also myfriend@telemail.bitnet (just for the heck of it). No luck. Does this ring any bells with anyone? What information should I be trying to dig up to enable us to exchange email? Email info to tbc@cray.com, please. I'm not a regular reader of this group, though I will try to monitor it for the next week or so. Thanks in advance, Tom Craig tbc@cray.com 612-683-5797
cew@isi.edu (Craig E. Ward) (04/12/91)
In article <094223.13561@timbuk.cray.com> tbc@juniper04.cray.com (Tom Craig) writes: >Does anyone know anything about a mail system called "telemail"? The mail system called "telemail" is now "SprintMail" and a few different relays between it an the Internet exist. The preferred one is Sprint own, Sprint.COM. A less functional, but more consistent*, one is through the Commercial Mail Relay. NASA ARC also had one for in-house use. Sprint.COM uses an X.400-like addressing scheme. The best way to find out your friends address in the eyes of Sprint.COM is to have her send you a message so you can see the "From" field. (For how to do this, she should ask her local reps or see the on-line help.) Mail through Sprint.COM is store-and-forward. The CMR also uses a store-and-forward method; however, it is visible to the user. Mail is "relayed" through a mailbox on SprintMail. Information on the CMR is available from "intermail-request@intermail.isi.edu." The address you mentioned in your article would work, after processing, with the CMR if, and *only* if, it were on the *same* SprintMail host as the CMR relay mailbox. Your best bet is Sprint.COM. Good luck. *As recently as February 1991, Sprint.COM and SprintMail did not use compatible versions of X.400. One example is the country code: Sprint.COM only accepted "US" while SprintMail used "USA." One hopes that they will fix such things; however, one must not hold ones breath.... -- Craig E. Ward <cew@venera.isi.edu> Slogan: "nemo me impune lacessit" USPS: USC/Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1200 Marina del Rey, CA 90292