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In article <894@drbear.COM> you write:
>For the last couple of years I've been sending mail from "the internet" to
>MCI Mail with no problems.  For the last two weekends any mail I've sent
>has bounced 

I wrote to the postmaster last week about this and got back the
appended note.  Unfortunately, despite the bit about the problem being
fixed, it happened again this morning.
Walter Henry
Stanford Univ Libraries

>Date: Mon, 03 Aug 92 20:22:46 -0400
>From: mmdf@NRI.Reston.VA.US
>Message-Id:  <9208032022.aa24200@NRI.Reston.VA.US>
>
>Hello,
>
>
>MCI Mail has recently added some new security enhancements for
>processing of electronic messages.  The implementation of these
>features inadvertently caused some messages to be rejected that
>were sent from the experimental Internet gateway to MCI Mail.  MCI
>has made the appropriate system changes to rectify the situation
>which will prevent this problem from reoccurring.
>
>Our records indicate that you received a non-delivery notification
>prior to implementing our system changes.  We apologize for any
>inconvenience this has caused and request that you please resend
>those messages for delivery.
>
>MCI MAIL

jackw@drbear.COM (Jack E. Wilkinson) writes:
>For the last couple of years I've been sending mail from "the internet" to
>MCI Mail with no problems.  For the last two weekends any mail I've sent
>has bounced back with the following header...
>..............................................................................
[deleted]
>At least one problem with envelope
>686 Organization Name or MCI ID must be included in address when sending to 
>    a Non MCI employee
>           MCI ID   Name                       Organization    Location
>           453-8956 Celia Wilkinson                            Menlo Park, CA 
>TO:        0004538956
>           EMS: MCI Mail
>           MBX: 0004538956
>615 Message must include at least one TO:  recipient

Note that it tells you that the destination is not included in
the headers - even though the envelope has the correct address.

>Your message follows:
>Received: from uucp-gw-1.pa.dec.com by NRI.Reston.VA.US id aa00730;
>          8 Aug 92 3:02 EDT
>Received: by uucp-gw-1.pa.dec.com; id AA06293; Fri, 7 Aug 92 23:57:25 -0700
>Received: by drbear.COM (smail2.5)id AA14661; 7 Aug 92 22:15:02 PDT (Fri)
>To: momw@pa.dec.com
>Subject: cdc summary 8/4/92
>Message-Id: <9208072215.AA14657@drbear.COM>
>Date: 7 Aug 92 22:15:00 PDT (Fri)
>From: "Jack E. Wilkinson" <jackw@drbear.com>
>..............................................................................

As you can see, there is no "To:" in the headers of the mail item as
received by mci.

This is flat out wrong - no mailer should be looking inside the
envelope to know where to send it.

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In article <1992Aug10.131251.28516@homebase.vistachrome.com> andy@homebase.vistachrome.com writes:
>>           MBX: 0004538956
>>615 Message must include at least one TO:  recipient
>
>Note that it tells you that the destination is not included in
>the headers - even though the envelope has the correct address.

I got the same bounce message, even though my message did have a valid
To: field.  

Walter Henry
Stanford Univ. Libraries

I had the same problem, so I sent mail to postmaster@nri.reston.va.us,
I didn't save the response, but it was along the lines of there was a
problem and it's been fixed.  I re-sent the messages that bounced and
they got thru.
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In article <894@drbear.COM> jackw@drbear.COM (Jack E. Wilkinson) writes:
> For the last couple of years I've been sending mail from "the internet" to
> MCI Mail with no problems.  For the last two weekends any mail I've sent
> has bounced back with the following header...

I was also having the same problem.

Here is a response from MCI:


MCI Mail has recently added some new security enhancements for
processing of electronic messages.  The implementation of these
features inadvertently caused some messages to be rejected that
were sent from the experimental Internet gateway to MCI Mail.  MCI
has made the appropriate system changes to rectify the situation
which will prevent this problem from reoccurring.

Our records indicate that you received a non-delivery notification
prior to implementing our system changes.  We apologize for any
inconvenience this has caused and request that you please resend
those messages for delivery.

A database update failed, causing the problem to occur again;
the PROBLEM has been corrected.        



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