While Mercury Communications Ltd recently revealed plans for a service to link various proprietary electronic mail systems to its X.400 service in Menlo Park, California, Anterior Technology Inc announced that it was setting up a gateway between cc:Mail users and the Internet and UUCP academic Unix networks. The system gives users of the Lotus Development Corp electronic mail package access, not to the academic users of these systems, but also those with mail boxes with commercial electronic mail operators such as MCI Communications’ MCI Mail, AT&T Mail, and Compuserv. To gain access to Anterior’s gateway service, a cc:Mail local area network site uses cc:Mail Gateway to dial Anterior’s post office gateway. To receive electronic mail from the Internet, a cc:Mail site subscribing to the gateway is assigned an Internet domain name address. Correspondents on the Internet or other mail systems send messages to those at the cc:Mail site via Anterior’s gateway using their native mail addressing format. To send mail to persons on the Internet, cc:Mail users at subscribing sites simply specify the recipients’ Internet domain style addresses along with the remote Internet post office. The Internet users appear to cc:Mail local net users as if they are on another cc:Mail network. The gateway supports transfers of electronic mail containing text, attached files, and facsimile items exported using the cc:Mail Import-Export tools. Usenet net news groups can be distributed to cc:Mail sites or individuals via the gateway.
