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Greetings!

I am experiencing great difficulty in establishing e-mail communications with
a friend.  My friend's employer uses MCIMail and my Internet gateway is
through ATTMail.

My Internet address is "alanb@quality1.attmail.com" and my friend's Internet
address is in the form of "company/machine/logon%1234567@mcimail.com".

When my friend attempts to send me e-mail, he gets a bounce stating something
to the effect of "MCImail does not permit communications to ATTmail via the
Internet."

When I try sending e-mail, the problems are even worse.  My machine doesn't
support TCP-IP, so I've got to use a UUCP equivalent of his address.  If I use
the full pathname (company/machine/logon), the mail is bounced by the attmail
machine.  If I omit the pathname and just use the logon, I get the following
bounce from mmdf@MCIMail.com:

  The MCI Mial/INTERNET gateway System
  encountered the following violations:

  Delivery to MCI Mail from attmail.com
  via the Internet is not permitted.

I tried calling MCIMail for help.  They told me that we had to use an X.400
gateway in order to communicate via e-mail.  They gave me the following
information to use:

  c=us
  a=mci
  dda=ems=1234567
  dda=mbx=company/machine/logon

But, they wouldn't tell me where to find or how to use an X.400 gateway.  So,
we've hit a dead end.

Can anyone help me put together the missing pieces?  Any help would be greatly
appreciated!  Please e-mail all responses to "alanb@quality1.attmail.com" (I
don't have access to Usenet, so please use e-mail).

Thank you very much,


Alan

p.s. - "1234567" is not the real MCIMail address--it just represents a 7-digit
       MCIMail address.