daqing@MILTON.U.WASHINGTON.EDU (Daqing Wan) (08/28/90)
=============================================================================== = I am interested in reaching a machine at IBM San Jose, California. The name of the machine is SJMVM2 and it is connected to the vnet. Does anybody know how I could send mail from internet to that machine? Or anybody willing to forward mail automatically there for 2 months. Any suggestion or help will be greatly appreciated. A poor student trying to get in touch with his girlfriend who is at IBM with an internship. S. del Castillo qutub54@spire.ms.washington.edu =============================================================================== =
KLENSIN@INFOODS.MIT.EDU (John C Klensin) (08/30/90)
S. del Castillo writes: > I am interested in reaching a machine at IBM San Jose, California. > The name of the machine is SJMVM2 and it is connected to the vnet. > Does anybody know how I could send mail from internet to that > machine? Or anybody willing to forward mail automatically there > for 2 months. Any suggestion or help will be greatly appreciated. > > A poor student trying to get in touch with his girlfriend who is > at IBM with an internship. In general, questions like this are best asked on info-nets (send mail to info-nets-request@think.com to subscribe). However, briefly: - The gateways between BITNET and the Internet on the one hand and IBM's VNET on the other are quite restricted, and, in general, IBM personnel have to have special accounting authorization and special permission to send mail to, or receive mail from, the "outside". The authorization has to be requested internally, through normal management channels, and the reasons for the access have to be documented. As I understand it, most people in the research division(s) who have a good reasons (good in terms of value to IBM) will usually get permission; people elsewhere in the company usually will not get permission unless the reason is astonishingly good--and then not quickly. - With the permission and authorization will typically come an address that, for a San Jose site, would almost certainly look like username@IBM.COM, without explicit reference to the actual user ID or network node. If she wants to pursue this, she should discuss it with her management. If they don't have an account that she can use, and won't (or can't) authorize an account, then the odds of your getting through are slight. Extremely slight. -------
drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com (08/30/90)
In article <9008282358.AA11244@lilac.berkeley.edu> Daqing Wan <daqing@MILTON.U.WASHINGTON.EDU> writes: > I am interested in reaching a machine at IBM San Jose, California. > The name of the machine is SJMVM2 and it is connected to the vnet. > Does anybody know how I could send mail from internet to that > machine? Or anybody willing to forward mail automatically there > for 2 months. Any suggestion or help will be greatly appreciated. The IBM VNET is now accessible from the Internet via domain "iinus1.ibm.com". So your friend's address would be "userid@sjmvm2.iinus1.ibm.com". BUT ... only registered users within IBM can use the gateway, so unless your friend has registered you can't get to her. Any manager can register her employees in a trivial overnight process, so that shouldn't stop your friend for long. Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center Internet: drake@ibm.com BITNET: DRAKE at ALMADEN Usenet: ...!uunet!ibmarc!drake Phone: (408) 927-1861
drake@drake.almaden.ibm.COM (08/30/90)
In article <9008282358.AA11244@lilac.berkeley.edu> Daqing Wan <daqing@MILTON.U.WASHINGTON.EDU> writes: > I am interested in reaching a machine at IBM San Jose, California. > The name of the machine is SJMVM2 and it is connected to the vnet. > Does anybody know how I could send mail from internet to that > machine? Or anybody willing to forward mail automatically there > for 2 months. Any suggestion or help will be greatly appreciated. The IBM VNET is now accessible from the Internet via domain "iinus1.ibm.com". So your friend's address would be "userid@sjmvm2.iinus1.ibm.com". BUT ... only registered users within IBM can use the gateway, so unless your friend has registered you can't get to her. Any manager can register her employees in a trivial overnight process, so that shouldn't stop your friend for long. Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center Internet: drake@ibm.com BITNET: DRAKE at ALMADEN Usenet: ...!uunet!ibmarc!drake Phone: (408) 927-1861