[comp.mail.misc] How to connect Internet/IBM internal site?

jonathan@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Jonathan Eunice) (03/14/90)

I am on the Internet, UUCP, and BITNET.  I need to routinely exchange
email with someone using PROFS at an IBM internal site.  I have his
user ID and node ID.  Is there a technique I can use or a gateway I can
employ to route mail between us him?  

We have tried one technique so far, without luck.  That is to run a 
program called EXTNET on his system to register him at the Internet
location IBM.COM.  (EXTNET does not seem to exist on his system.)

All leads appreciated.  (Sorry to ask a question that has probably been
answered many times before.)

Jonathan Eunice
jonathan@unix.cis.pitt.edu
412-682-1368

jbaltz@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Jerry B. Altzman) (03/14/90)

Posting number 8,231 on getting to IBM

In general, you *can't* send mail from outside IBM to inside IBM (VNET)
Only those authorized for inbound or outbound mail and receive or send mail
through the VNET/IBM internet gateway (IBM.COM. Bitnet is a bit different.)


Mostly it's research types that get outbound/inbound mail access.

//jbaltz
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