From ncr-sd!hp-sdd!hplabs!pyramid!decwrl!vixie Sat Oct 22 22:33:43 PDT 1988
Article 1525 of comp.mail.misc:
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>From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: DEC gateway needed
Message-ID: <9@gnome6.pa.dec.com>
Date: 19 Oct 88 10:24:36 GMT
References: <4714@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Organization: DEC Western Research Lab
Lines: 46

In article <4714@thorin.cs.unc.edu> hewitt@cs.unc.edu writes:
# I am looking for a gateway between the Internet and DEC's internal
# mail network.  Is there such a gateway?  Does a user have to obtain
# permission to use it?  All info would be greatly appreciated.

Decwrl.dec.com is the gateway between the internet and DEC's internal
network.  There are two kinds of host in here: DECNet/mail-11 and
Internet/SMTP/RFC822.  You will in most cases not need to know which
kind of host you're trying to reach.

Mail to		decwrl!PERSON
     or		PERSON@decwrl.dec.com
will reach anyone who works in DEC's Palo Alto buildings; you don't
really need to know what host they read their mail on.

Mail to		decwrl!HOST.dec!PERSON
     or		decwrl!HOST.dec.com!PERSON
     or		PERSON%HOST.dec@decwrl.dec.com
     or		PERSON%HOST.dec.com@decwrl.dec.com
will reach anyone outside of Palo Alto, but you'll need to know their
host name.  There are a few subdomains of .dec.com, and if you need one,
you'll know which one to use :-).  It doesn't really matter whether they
are reachable on DECNet/Mail-11 or Internet/SMTP; the address syntax is
the same for both (or so it will seem to you, at any rate).

You don't need anybody's permission to use this, since you are sending
mail to DEC people after all so it's okay to use DEC equipment to do it.
The trick is that you'll need to know the login name and sometimes the
host name, which means you need to have some kind of contact with the
person you want to send the mail to before you can start sending them
mail.  This is probably a bug, but there it is, anyway.

Note that decwrl.dec.com is the MX for *.dec.com, and that those of you
with recent (MX-capable) mailers can also send mail to PERSON@HOST.dec.com
and it should work.

Questions or complaints regarding DEC's mailers should be sent to

	postmaster@decwrl.dec.com

You could also send directly to me, but if I'm on vacation(1), you'll want
to reach whoever has the duty while I'm away.
-- 
Paul Vixie
Work:    vixie@decwrl.dec.com    decwrl!vixie    +1 415 853 6600
Play:    paul@vixie.sf.ca.us     vixie!paul      +1 415 864 7013