Many of the E-Mail addresses in the Faculty/Staff phone book data
are Banyan E-Maill addresses NOT standard Internet E-Mail addresses.
This document details the form of each style of E-Mail address so that
they will be recognizable and tells how to use the mail gateway between
the Internet and the Banyan E-Mail systems.

     This document contains the following sections.

     1.  Internet Electronic Mail Addresses

     2.  Banyan VINES Electronic Mail Addresses

     3.  Sending E-mail from the Internet to Banyan VINES

     4.  Sending E-mail from Banyan VINES to the Internet

1.  Internet Electronic Mail Addresses

     The Internet is a world wide computer communications 
network.  Electronic mail (E-mail) may be sent to any
host computer on the Internet.  Internet E-mail addresses
are of the form

     <username>@<domain>

     Where:

            <username> is the username of the person you 
                       are sending E-mail to.  This is 
                       usually the account the user logs 
                       in to.

             <domain>  is the Internet domain name of the 
                       host computer where the user logs 
                       in.

     Each computer on the Internet has a domain name given 
to it.  An example is the Northeastern University E-mail
and news system called lynx.  The Interet domain name for
lynx is

     lynx.dac.neu.edu

     To send E-mail to a user named Joe on the lynx system 
at Northeastern University from anywhere on the Internet 
you would send to

     joe@lynx.dac.neu.edu

     If that user existed on lynx then the mesage would be 
delivered to that user's lynx account.

2.  Banyan VINES Electronic Mail Addresses

     The Northeastern University Banyan VINES communications 
network is a network of Banyan VINES server systems from
which PC and Macintosh clients around the University can
share services such as PC and Macintosh application programs.  
One such application program is Electronic mail.  Electronic 
mail (E-mail) may be sent to any host computer on campus or
the Internet.  Banyan VINES E-mail addresses are of the form

     <username>@<group>@<org>

      Where:

            <username> is the username of the person you are 
                       send E-mail to.  This is usually the
                       account the user logs in to.

            <group>    is the group within a department that
                       the user is in.  Examples are Staff,
                       Faculty, Student.

            <org>      is the uniuversity organization or 
                       department the user is in.

     To send E-mail to a student user named Jane Doe on 
a Banyan VINES system from another Banyan VINES accessable 
PC or Macintosh who worked for the Division of Academic 
Computing, you would send to

     Jane Doe@Student@DAC

     If that user existed then the mesage would be 
delivered to that user's Banyan VINES account.


3.  Sending E-mail from the Internet to Banyan VINES

     Banyan VINES and the Internet do not share E-mail file
formts or protocols.  All E-mail between them must pass
through a gateway which translates from one to the 
other.

     To send E-mail to a Banyan VINES account from the 
Internet, using the above example of Jane Doe, the 
address would look as follows on a UNIX based system

     Jane=Doe%Student%DAC@nunet.neu.edu

     The = is needed because Internet mail does not 
     allow blanks in an address.

     The %'s replace the @'s in the Baynan VINES
     address because Internet addresses allow
     only one @.

     The nunet.neu.edu is the name of the
     Banyan VINES gateway service from the Internet 
     side of the gateway.

     On the DAC VAXes the IN% a "'s must still be included.
     The address looks as follows from the VAX VMS systems.

     IN%"Jane=Doe%Student%DAC@nunet.neu.edu"

4.  Sending E-mail from Banyan VINES to the Internet

     Banyan VINES and the Internet do not share E-mail file
formts or protocols.  All E-mail between them must pass
through a gateway which translates from one to the 
other.

     To send E-mail to the Internet from a Banyan
Vines account, using the above example of user Joe
on lynx, the address would look as follows

     SMTP@VINES@NUnet[joe@lynx.dac.neu.edu]

     SMTP@VINES@NUnet is the name of the Banyan VINES
     Internet gateway service from the Banyan VINES 
     side of the gateway.
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