segordon@amherst.bitnet (03/28/91)
Hi, could someone please tell me how to address mail (from an internet site) to a CompuServe user? E-mail would be appreciated. thanks, segordon@amherst.bitnet gordon@huey.phast.umass.edu
chaney@ms.uky.edu (Dan Chaney) (04/08/91)
segordon@amherst.bitnet writes: >Hi, could someone please tell me how to address mail (from an internet >site) to a CompuServe user? E-mail would be appreciated. > thanks, segordon@amherst.bitnet > gordon@huey.phast.umass.edu Below is what I received from the postmaster at compuserve.com a few weeks ago. I'm posting this for general interest - apologies if you think that a bad thing. -dan From: POSTMASTER@compuserve.com To: Daniel Chaney <chaney@ms.uky.edu> Subject: Re: Info Request I've enclosed the standard "Addressing CompuServe Mail users" document. If you have more specific questions, let me know. Kathy Chevrier, CompuServe Incorporated POSTMASTER@COMPUSERVE.COM 5000 Arlington Centre Blvd, Columbus, OH 43220 +1 614 457-8600 **************************************** Subject: Addressing CompuServe Mail users There are two types of CompuServe Mail addresses. They can be reached from the Internet as follows: a) Members of the CompuServe Information Service have an address (a.k.a. User ID) of the form "xxxxx,yyyy", such as "70000,11". To send mail to such an address from the Internet, change the comma to a period and attach "@CompuServe.com". For instance: 70000.11@CompuServe.com b) Members of organizations with a private CompuServe Mail area have an address of the form "organization:name", such as "ABC:J.SMITH". To send mail to such an address from the Internet, send it to "name@organization.CompuServe.com". For instance: J.SMITH@ABC.CompuServe.com A few organizations have addresses which also include a department in the form "organization:department:name", such as "ABC:ACCTG:JOHN". To send mail to such an address from the Internet, send to "name@department.organization.CompuServe.com". For instance: JOHN@ACCTG.ABC.CompuServe.com There are also a number of special destinations available to users of CompuServe Mail which are NOT accessible from the Internet, including: Facsimile Delivery (e.g. >FAX: ) Postal Delivery (e.g. >POSTAL: ) Telex Delivery (e.g. >TLX: ) MCI Mail Delivery (e.g. >MCIMAIL: ) Finally, please realize that only CompuServe Mail users have access to our member directory. Since there is no mechanism for you to obtain addresses directly from CompuServe Incorporated, you should obtain this information from the individuals with whom you wish to correspond. Thank you. -dan -- -- Daniel Chaney -- -- postmaster, newsguy, main archiver for ms.uky.edu (Univ of KY Math Sci) -- -- {uunet and the like}!ukma!chaney chaney@ms.uky.edu chaney@ukma.BITNET -- -- "I'll have time enough for sleep when I'm dead and in the ground" --
beh@wookumz.bu.edu (Bruce E. Howells) (04/21/91)
That compuserve.com address will cause problems for mailers which can not resolve MX records - spent a bit of time fighting with such a relic over at BU. If your mailer does not recognize compuserve.com, try routing via saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu. Ask someone local about how to do this - if your mailer can't cope with MXs, it's messed enough to be strange. (A good first guess would be nnnnn.nnnn%compuserve.com@saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu) Bruce Howells, beh@gnu.ai.mit.edu
rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) (04/21/91)
In article <BEH.91Apr20212816@wookumz.bu.edu> beh@wookumz.bu.edu (Bruce E. Howells) writes: > >That compuserve.com address will cause problems for mailers which can not >resolve MX records - spent a bit of time fighting with such a relic over at >BU. > >If your mailer does not recognize compuserve.com, try routing via >saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu. Ask someone local about how to do this - if >your mailer can't cope with MXs, it's messed enough to be strange. (A good >first guess would be nnnnn.nnnn%compuserve.com@saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu) That sounds like bad advice. If your mailer does not recognize MX records, junk it and get a decent one. The software you will need is probably as close as your nearest ftp archive site. (It might even be on your machine already under the name '/usr/lib/sendmail.mx'). If, for some reason you are really stuck with a bad mailer, configure it to send all outgoing SMTP mail to a friendly relay host which does have a decent mailer. Obviously you should coordinate this with the admin of the relay host. If you don't administer the machine, and can't change it, explain the problem to your administrator and encourage him to change it. If you can't use MX records, getting to 'compuserve.com' is only one of your problems. There are many sites you will not be able to send mail to. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940