ellson%sdcsvax@ucsd.edu (11/14/89)
TELECOM Digest Sat, 11 Nov 89 16:45:04 CST Special: Internet to Telemail
Today's Topics: Moderator: Patrick Townson
Internet Addressing To Reach Telemail (John Ellson)
[Moderator's Note: This special edition of the Digest discusses how
mail is sent between the Internet/Bitnet and Telemail. You may wish to
keep it with other email reference materials. My thanks to John Ellson
for making it available to us. PT]
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Date: Tue, 7 Nov 89 15:50:38 MST
From: uunet!ontap.stsusa.com!ellson%sdcsvax@ucsd.edu
Subject: Internet Addressing To Reach Telemail
In article <telecom-v09i0492m03@vector.dallas.tx.us>, boulder!ngdc2!gho@ncar.
ucar.edu (Gerald H. Orita) writes:
> I would like to know if there is an Internet address for Telemail. We
> would like to excess Telemail through Internet instead of through
> modems.
> I would like suggestions.
> Thanks in advance.
I had exactly the same question and, just last week, I received the
following answer. So far I have only verified the ability to send mail
in the UseNet -> Telemail direction.
If you need more information please contact Chris Refuerzo directly.
John Ellson ellson@ontap.stsusa.com 602-395-5281 ///
Siemens Transmission Systems, Inc., ///
8620 North 22nd Avenue, Phoenix AZ 85021 ///
///
"Are you insinuating that my brain consists \\\ /// If my employers had my
of, at bottom, just a bunch of ants running \\\/// opinions then they
wouldn't around?" Douglas R. Hofstadter. \XX/ need me, would they?
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Date: Fri, 03 Nov 89 11:40:09 PST
From: Chris Refuerzo <uunet!ISI.EDU!refuerzo>
Hello
Here is the information you requested about TELEMAIL. If you
have further questions, please let us know.
Chris
Commercial Mail Relay Project
TELEMAIL Ann Westine
Annette DeSchon
Jon Postel
Craig Ward
ISI
February 1989
MAIL FORWARDING BETWEEN TELEMAIL AND ARPA-MAIL USING COMMERCIAL MAIL RELAY
OVERVIEW
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These are the instructions for using the Commercial Mail Relay (CMR)
system that has replaced the Intermail system. The CMR is used for
transmitting computer mail between users on the Telemail system and
the ARPAMAIL system. CMR may be used in either direction.
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Please note: The use of DARPA supported facilities is for DARPA
sponsored research activities and other approved government
business.
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Messages to be forwarded are sent to the CMR mailbox called
"Intermail" on the local mail system. The CMR operates by having a
program service mailboxes in both the local and the destination mail
systems. When the right information is supplied either in the ARPA-
Mail header "TO" field, or at the beginning of a message, the program
forwards those messages into the other mail system.
In order for a message to be delivered from ARPA-Mail to a mailbox on
a Telemail system you simply type the Telemail mailbox in the ARPA-
Internet header.
TO: user-mailbox%TELEMAIL@INTERMAIL.ISI.EDU
For more details, see "ARPA-MAIL TO TELEMAIL" section on page three.
In order for a message to be delivered from Telemail to a mailbox in
the ARPA-Mail system, you must first send mail to the CMR mailbox in
Telemail called "[INTERMAIL/USCISI]TELEMAIL/USA" and then add the
ARPA forwarding information at the beginning of the text of each
message. This forwarding information tells the mail forwarding
program which mail system to forward the message to, and which
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mailboxes to send it to. Always forward to ARPA, even if you are
sending to BITNET you must specify ARPA. Telemail users please note
that forwarding information MUST be included in the text of the
message, even when the "ANSWER" command is being used. This
information is in the form:
Forward: ARPA
TO: <user mailbox>
<blank line>
The syntax allowed on the "To:" line is any acceptable ARPA-Internet
address, (user@host.domain). In a list, the addresses are separated
by commas. It is also possible to include a list of CC recipients.
See the example for further details.
In either direction, the local Subject field of the message to
"Intermail" is used as the Subject field of the message delivered in
the other mail system.
TELEMAIL TO ARPA-MAIL
=====================
The following is an example of how to send a message to Annette and
Bob, on the Internet, with copies going to John on BITNET, Joe on
CSNET, and Fred on UUCP. Note that addresses are separated by commas
(not spaces).
Example 1 --------------------------------------------------------------
To: [INTERMAIL/USCISI]TELEMAIL/USA
Subject: Test Message Number 1
Forward: ARPA
To: DeSchon@ISI.EDU,Bob@LCS.MIT.EDU
CC: JOHN%ABC.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU,joe%oksu.csnet@RELAY.CS.NET,
foo!bar!fred@UUNET.UU.NET
Annette,
This is the text of the test message.
--Fred
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"Forward: ARPA" signals the beginning of the forwarding information
and tells the forwarding program that this is mail for the ARPA-Mail
system. On the next line, "To: DeSchon@ISI.EDU,Bob@LCS.MIT.EDU"
specifies the mailboxes that it will be delivered to. The "To:" line
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is required, to deliver the message.
It is also possible to send copies to other mailboxes, using a "CC:"
line. Note that in the forwarding information section, the "To" and
"CC" fields must start at the beginning of the line. Continuation
lines of the "TO:" and "CC:" fields, however, are indented. The "To"
and "CC" fields can contain anything that ARPA-Mail allows. The
blank line separates the forwarding information from the rest of the
text. Therefore, there can't be any blank lines between the
"Forward:" line and the "To:" line.
The "Subject" field from the Telemail header will also be used as the
subject in the ARPA-Mail header, when the message is forwarded.
Sending to BITNET, CSNET, or UUCP NETWORKS:
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Some hosts need to go through one of the internet gateways. The
following is a set of examples of how to send mail through each
gateway.
BITNET:
Forward: ARPA
To: JOHN%ABC.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
CSNET:
Forward: ARPA
TO: joe%oksu.csnet@RELAY.CS.NET
UUCP:
Forward: ARPA
TO: host2!host1!fred@UUNET.UU.NET
ARPA-MAIL TO TELEMAIL
=====================
In this direction the Telemail mailbox is typed in the "TO" field of
the standard Internet header of your mail program. Please note that
in some mail interfaces, such as "hm" you need to quote the string
before the at-sign. For example, to forward a message to Mary Worth
of XYZ-INC you would type:
TO: "WORTH/XYZ-INC%TELEMAIL"@INTERMAIL.ISI.EDU
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BITNET USERS:
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Some systems in the BITNET world treat square brackets, "[" and "]",
as special characters. On these systems, a square bracket that is
used in an address must be quoted through the use of a preceding
backslash, "\". Where this applies, an address should be in the
form:
TO: \[GORDON/OMNET\]MAIL/USA%TELEMAIL@INTERMAIL.ISI.EDU
Everything to the left of the "%" is the user mailbox address in
Telemail. Everything to the right of the "%" is the ARPA-Mail
forwarding information. The "%TELEMAIL" must be included in each
address so the program can recognize this and queue the message for
Telemail. Be sure that there are no blank spaces anywhere in the
address. Note that addresses are separated by commas.
The "Subject" field from the ARPA-Mail header will also be used as
the subject in the Telemail header, when the message is forwarded.
In the following example, a message is being forwarded from the
ARPA-Mail system to several TELENET mail systems. (TELEMAIL, MAIL,
TELECOM, GSFC, NASAMAIL, and TELEMEMO.) In the "To" field, copies of
the message are sent to seven mailboxes (Washington, Gordon, Joe,
Lewis, Webster, Glenn, and Pat).
Example 2 -----------------------------------------------------------------
To: Washington/XYZ-INC%TELEMAIL@INTERMAIL.ISI.EDU,
[Gordon/OMNET]MAIL/USA%TELEMAIL@INTERMAIL.ISI.EDU,
[Joe/EDUNET]MAIL/USA%TELEMAIL@INTERMAIL.ISI.EDU,
[Lewis/TELECOM]TELECOM/CANADA%TELEMAIL@INTERMAIL.ISI.EDU,
[Webster/GSFCMAIL]GSFC/USA%TELEMAIL@INTERMAIL.ISI.EDU,
[Glenn/NASA]NASAMAIL/USA%TELEMAIL@INTERMAIL.ISI.EDU,
[Pat/ABC-CO]TELEMEMO/AUSTRALIA%TELEMAIL@INTERMAIL.ISI.EDU
Subject: Test Message Number 2
Fred,
This is a test of mail forwarding.
--Joe
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It is possible to communicate with a number of organizations using
Telemail systems in other countries, as well as the U.S. Here is the
basic format: [username/organization]system branch/country
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The old style method of including the forwarding information in the
text of the messages is also acceptable.
For example, to forward a message to Worth, on the TELEMAIL/USA,
the forwarding section at the beginning of the Telemail text would
consist of:
Forward: TELEMAIL
To: Worth/XYZ-INC
The following is an example of a message to be forwarded from the
ARPA-Mail system to the Telemail system. The text on the right (for
example, "--ARPA-Mail header") is for explanation only, and should
not be included in an actual message.
Note that in the forwarding information section, the "To" field must
start at the beginning of the line. Continuation lines, however, are
indented. The "To" field can contain anything that Telemail allows.
The "Subject" field from the ARPA-Mail header will also be used as
the subject in the Telemail header, when the message is forwarded.
Example 3 --------------------------------------------------------------
To: Intermail@ISI.EDU --ARPA-Mail header
Subject: Test Message Number 3
Forward: TELEMAIL --ARPA-MAIL text, forwarding info
To: Worth/XYZ-INC,[Gordon/OMNET]MAIL/USA, --Telemail mailboxes
[Meyer/Dept5/Div2/ABC-CO]MAIL/USA --a continuation line
--blank line ends forwarding info
Folks, --start of text of the message
This is a test of mail forwarding.
--Fred --last line ends with
--carriage return
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IN CASE OF QUESTIONS OR PROBLEMS PLEASE SEND A MESSAGE TO:
Intermail-Request@INTERMAIL.ISI.EDU.
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<< end of special report>>
John Ellson // ellson@ontap.stsusa.com // 602-395-5281
Siemens Transmission Systems, Inc., 8620 North 22nd Avenue, Phoenix AZ 85021
[Moderator's Note: Thanks very much John for sending this along. These
new instructions obviously supercede the instructions given by the
same organization about two years ago, and this improved method seems
a lot easier to use. PT]
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