Internet E-Mail -- Inter-Network Mail Addressing

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Inter-Network Mail Addressing

Details of Inter-Network Mail Addressing, i.e., ways of getting from MYNET to YOURNET, can be found in a white paper by J.J. Chew entitled "Inter-Network Mail Guide", [E6]. Here we present the basic methodology, along with some examples.

E-mail Networks, in their simplest form consist of two things:

A list of e-mail Network Identifiers; for instance applelink, bitnet, compuserve, mci, sprint ....
A sequence of connection blocks describing how to get from one network to another. Each block looks something like:

#FROM:             mynet
#TO:               yournet
#RECIPIENT:        youraddress
#CONTACT:          contactaddress
#INSTRUCTIONS:     I send to 'youraddress@thegateway'

Applying the information in the "Inter-Network Mail Guide" we obtain the following:

From Internet to CompuServe

#FROM               internet 
#TO                 compuserve
#RECIPIENT          70007,2377
#INSTRUCT           send to '70007.2377@compuserve.com'

From CompuServe to Internet

#FROM               compuserve
#TO                 internet
#RECIPIENT          mohsen@neda.com
#INSTRUCT           send to \%INTERNET:mohsen@neda.com