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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
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Subject: MCI Mail <------>Internet gateway
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Date: 16 Aug 89 20:37:48 GMT
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In-reply-to: johnl@esegue.uucp's message of 15 Aug 89 22:36:26 GMT

In article <1989Aug15.223626.5291@esegue.uucp> johnl@esegue.uucp (John R. Levine) writes:

   In article <1280@hcx1.UUCP> leoh@hardy.hdw.harris.com (Leo Hinds) writes:
   >On a similar note ... is it possiple to use the compuserve/MCI mail link
   >via the internet ?

   No, but you don't have to.  MCI Mail has a very nice but totally
   unpublicised gateway of their own that I stumbled across.  To send mail from
   MCI to the Internet, tell MCI Mail you're sending to a REMS, give the REMS
   name as "internet" and on the mailbox line, give the internet address.  To
   go the other way, send to something like 0001234567@mcimail.com where the
   number is the MCI Mail account number padded to ten digits.  Not all
   internet hosts know mcimail.com, but uunet does.  Bang paths seem to work
   too.
   -- 
   John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 492 3869
   {ima|lotus}!esegue!johnl, johnl@ima.isc.com, Levine@YALE.something
   Massachusetts has 64 licensed drivers who are over 100 years old.  -The Globe

Nslookup tells me:

mcimail.com	preference = 10, mail exchanger = NRI.RESTON.VA.US
Authoritative answers can be found from:
NRI.RESTON.VA.US	inet address = 132.151.1.1

So mci mail can be sent to:

	0001234567%mcimail.com@NRI.RESTON.VA.US

if you don't have a mailer that understands MX records.
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