HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: root@lyra.scg.hac.com (Dave Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Software to process mbox? (Summary)
Date: 31 Aug 92 23:02:03 GMT
Reply-To: fisher@lyra.hac.com (Dave Fisher)
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., Carlsbad, CA

In article <23049@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> I wrote:
>Anybody know of some software which will process an existing "mbox" file
>and separate the mail according to who sent it, subject, etc. ?

Thanks to:
           Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).    berg@physik.tu-muenchen.de
and 
           Steven D. Majewski		University of Virginia Physiology Dept.
           sdm7g@Virginia.EDU		

The short answer is that to do this one needs procmail, and/or formail.
Stephen van den Berg suggested the following:

]Get the procmail/formail combo, write yourself a suitable .procmailrc file
](which will mainly consist of a bunch of regular expressions and a bunch of
]folders you want the mail sorted into), and use the following command-line:
]
]	formail <mbox -s procmail
]
](Or, if you have a non-standard mailbox format, like digests and the like:
]
]	formail <mbox -ds procmail

Thanks again to both.               Dave Fisher  fisher@lyra.hac.com


Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
From: kelsey@mdd.comm.mot.com (Joe Kelsey)
Subject: Installing smail3.1.26 on SVR4
Summary: mailsurr file for SVR4 and smail3.1.26
Keywords: mailsurr SVR4 smail3.1.26
Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:40:45 GMT

I just installed smail3.1.26 on ESIX SVR4.0.4.  I installed it using the
``natural'' edits to the EDITME file (os=sys5.4, etc.)  I did not install it
in /usr/bin/sendmail, since SVR4 does not, by default, include sendmail there.
In fact, SVR4 includes the sendmail configuration in /usr/ucblib, but does not
document how to actually use it.  Rather than even trying to fool around with
the stuff in /usr/ucblib, I let smail install itself in /usr/local/bin/smail
and also let it install itself as /bin/rmail.  Now, remote mail received via
uucp comes in correctly through smail, but local messages don't.  In order to
force /bin/mail to send everything to smail I replaced the default mailsurr
file (in /etc/mail/mailsurr) with the following one line file:

'(.+)'	'(.+)'	'< /usr/local/bin/smail -em -i \\2'

Voila!  /bin/mail sends everything to smail and I didn't have to fool around
with the LMAIL stuff or anything.  In fact, I could probably restore
/bin/rmail.SAV into /bin/rmail and let rmail forward everything to smail...an
experiment for the future?

Since I don't have an ethernet connection, I don't know the details of
replacing the smtpd entry in the network startup, but it probably doesn't
involve much more than editing an rc file somewhere...

/Joe

Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp,biz.sco.general
From: dlucy@sandr.COM (Douglas Lucy)
Subject: How to configure MMDF for mailing lists
Organization: S&R Software, Inc.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:28:24 GMT
Followup-To: comp.mail.misc
Keywords: MMDF LIST MTA SCO MAIL UUCP

I've set up a basic mailing list under MMDF. There's a main alias for
sending mail to the entire group (blue-sky), an outbound alias that
re-routesd the incoming mail to all members of the list, and an alias
for the list maintainer (blue-sky-request). The /usr/mmdf/alias.list
file looks like:

	blue-sky:		blue-sky-outbound@list-processor
	blue-sky-outbound:	</usr/mmdf/lists/blue-sky
	blue-sky-request:	dlucy

Okay, all's well so far. When mail is sent to "blue-sky", everybody
in the file /usr/mmdf/lists/blue-sky gets a copy of the mail.

When someone mails to "blue-sky-request", it comes to me (dlucy).

Now, I want to archive ALL the incoming mail in a file. No problem,
the manual (SCO's) says to add a line ending in:

	"mmdf//usr/mmdf/lists/bs-archive"

So I merrily add:

	blue-sky-archive:	"mmdf//usr/mmdf/lists/bs-archive"

Which works fine for archiving the incoming mail when the primary alias
(blue-sky) is changed to:

	blue-sky:	blue-sky-archive, blue-sky-outbound@list-processor

HOWEVER, the mail nevers goes to ANY of the users!

I've tried many combinations of aliases on the same line, actual commands
instead of aliases, USER alias lists pointing to both outbound and
archive, with no success. It seems I can either mail to everyone on the
lists *OR* keep a copy of all incoming mail, but not both.

Anyone have any ideas? Do *YOU* run a mailing list using MMDF? Do you
archive the inoming mail? Please let me know how you do it...


BTW: We're using MMDF as it comes in SCO Unix 3.2.2.

Thanks in advance
-- 
[ W. Douglas Lucy, VP Technical Services, S and R Software, Inc. ]
[ dlucy@sandr.COM                                                ]
From: nauen@WRAIR-EMH1.ARMY.MIL
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: AT&T EasyLink <--> Internet
Date: 31 Aug 92 18:31:00 GMT

In <1992Aug31.042927.23745@tplrd.tpl.oz.au> davids@tplrd.tpl.oz.au (David See)
writes:

        To send mail from EasyLink to Internet, use the address
                IPM
                PRIMARY
                COUNTRY US
                ADMD ATTMAIL
                ORG UUCP
                DDA ID-INTERNET!!SYDNEY.TPS.COM!!DAVIDS
                END+

> Internet to EasyLink works as advertised. I have not verified EasyLink
> to Internet yet. Note that in the DDA line, ! is used to escape
> lowercase letters. !! is used for a single ! in the address. Thus,
> if my username had to be in lowercase, the line would be
>                 DDA ID-INTERNET!!SYDNEY.TPS.COM!!!D!A!V!I!D!S

It will be interesting to here how this works.  I have been advised somewhat
differently, i.e., that since the mail must pass thru UUCP, the username and
domain address _must_ be in lowercase.  However, since the output driver on
EasyLink is upper case, to send lower case letters to Internet, each letter 
_must_ be prefixed with a !.  For example, to send from EasyLink to me would be

IPM
Subject (optional)
PRIMARY
COU US
ADM ATTMAIL
ORG ATTMAIL
DDA ID-INTERNET!!!w!r!a!i!r-!e!m!h1.!a!r!m!y.!m!i!l!!!n!a!u!e!n
END+

This supposedly pertains only to customers on the old EasyLink, formerly owned 
by Western Union and now owned by AT+T.  Further help may be available from
<wu/O=ATANDT_EASYLINK_SERVICES/DD.ELN=62400400@mhs.attmail.com>, which is
Chuck Kiefe, Supervisor, Major Accounts; ATTMAIL Customer Support; 
Telephone 314-298-9422

EasyLink customers on ATTMail, who were never part of the Western Union system,
supposedly can send more simply, using lowercase letters as desired.

/C=US/ADMD=ATTMAIL/O=UUCP/DDA.ID=internet(b)wrair-emh1.army.mil(b)nauen/+

Mail _from_ Internet which reaches an EasyLink user supposedly contains a
return address in the format and syntax shown>

Ric <nauen@wrair-emh1.army.mil>  <nauen%wrmain.decnet@detrick-emh1.army.mil>
           ^^^^^Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
        U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command
From: GUEST00@lafibm.lafayette.edu (GUEST00)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: IP addresses
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:30:46 GMT
Organization: Lafayette College
Originator: news@lafcol

How can I convert the the hostname like aaaa.bbbb.cccc.dddd
to the IP adress like nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn

thanks
M. Fares
uctn004@frors31.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
From: edgar@coco.ms.washington.edu (Edgar Karl Nielsen)
Subject: Re: Eudora/Mailstrom/popper/IMAP/ question ( alternate mailbox )
Organization: Univ of Wash , Math Sciences Computing Center
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:19:44 GMT

Steven D. Majewski (sdm7g@aemsun.med.Virginia.EDU) wrote:
> 
> ...
> I also tried to get Mailstrom to work, before I read the appendix and saw
> that the IMAP host it refers to is a completely different protocol:
> [ rfc1203 Interactive Mail Access Protocol - version 3 (Obsoletes RFC 1064) ]
> ( I also note, that in looking up that number, I see that I've been reading 
>   a superceded version of POP-2: rfc1081 instead of rfc1225 - so maybe there
>   are added functions ? ) 
> From another quick scan of the documents, this protocol seems to be 
> designed more for what I have in mind: access to a centralized mail repository
> from multiple clients in a way that keeps changes common to all. 
> 
This is correct. So you can read your mail using any IMAP clients
or, for unix, just use regular unix mailers if you want to(if the
mail spool directory is mounted!). The one thing is that only 1 IMAP client
can have read/write access at a time. So if you are reading your mail with
pine on the unix side and then startup Mailstrom on a mac, the mailstrom
session will be read-only.

My understanding is that POP transfers all of your mail to the local
machine when you connect while IMAP will only transfer all of the stuff
if you tell it to do this. For example, when you look at the list of
mail subjects, only the subjects are transferred to your IMAP client.

> 
> Where can I find an IMAP server for unix ? 
2 places I know of: sumex.stanford.edu in imap/server 
ftphost.cac.washington.edu in imap/imap.tar.Z
	Note that the pine mailer in there is a UNIX IMAP client....
We use the one from ftphost - seems to work w/o problems.

> 
> Are there any IMAP clients for MS-DOS ? 
> 	(or others for Mac besides Mailstrom?)
I think the Univ. of Washington may be porting pine to DOS.... My sources
are offline right now so I can't check the various README files for pine.
The only other Mac IMAP client is MacMS and I believe it is now superceded
by MailStrom - mailstrom seems pretty nice all and all.
-- 

All opinions are my own....
---------
Edgar Nielsen
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.headers
From: mjo@ef2007.efhd.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
Subject: Re: Return-Receipt-To: header reliable?
X-Disclaimer: Not an official spokesperson for Ford OPEO
Reply-To: Mike O'Connor <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
Organization: International Affairs, Overseas Engineering, "Fordz"
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 20:33:07 GMT

In article <dhuber.715611908@autmgr> dhuber@autelca.ascom.ch (Daniel
Huber) writes:

:I just recommended a colleauge to enable the header Return-Receipt-To: for
:his outgoing international mail. However, we do not get all return receipts
:we would expect... 
:Is it possible to turn off Return-Receipt-To: replies? Or is the internet
:that unreliable?

Return-Receipt-To: is obeyed by sendmail and MTAs that want to act
like sendmail.  However, it's not part of any RFC that I'm aware of.

						...Mike
-- 
 Michael J. O'Connor           |  Internet:  mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com
 Ford Motor Company, OPEO      |  UUCP:      ...!{backbone}!fmsrl7!mjo
 20000 Rotunda, Bldg. 1-3001   |  Phone:     +1 (313) 248-1260
 Dearborn, MI  48121           |  Fax:       +1 (313) 323-6277
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
From: thomas@serum.clpd.Kodak.Com (bulli@kodak.com)
Subject: Re: MMDF configuration ... need help
Reply-To: bulli@kodak.com
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company - Clinical Products Division
Distribution: clpd
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:21:10 GMT

Put an additional channel in called "badhosts" - it provides the
capabilities to forward any message not deliverable locally to an
outside site (who might be able to resolve the mail-address).
--
/-------------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Thomas Bullinger | INTERNET:  bulli@kodak.com(work)  mrbulli@btoy1.UUCP |
| (716)253-7958    | COMPUSERVE:                               76535,2221 |
|                  | FIDO:                Thomas Bullinger @ 1:260/228.12 |
\-------------------------------------------------------------------------/
  ______                             __        _  _
    /   /                           /  )      // //
   /   /_  __________  __.  _      /--<  . . // // o ____  _,  _  __
(_/   / /_(_) / / / <_(_/|_/_)    /___/_(_/_</_</_<_/ / <_(_)_</_/ (_
                                                         /|
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
From: cliff@geronimo.eece.unm.edu (Cliff Wood)
Subject: Internet access in Frankfurt, Germany
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 16:33:17 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

I will be in Germany for 6 months starting Sept. 1 and would like
to find out if anyone knows how I can access internet so that I
might keep up with my E-mail.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cliff

Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
From: davidf@golem.uucp (David J. Fiander)
Subject: Re: How to configure MMDF for mailing lists
Keywords: MMDF LIST MTA SCO MAIL UUCP
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 12:57:39 GMT

According to dlucy@sandr.COM (Douglas Lucy):
>Now, I want to archive ALL the incoming mail in a file. No problem,
>the manual (SCO's) says to add a line ending in:
>
>	"mmdf//usr/mmdf/lists/bs-archive"
>
>So I merrily add:
>
>	blue-sky-archive:	"mmdf//usr/mmdf/lists/bs-archive"
>
>HOWEVER, the mail nevers goes to ANY of the users!
>
>I've tried many combinations of aliases on the same line, actual commands
>instead of aliases, USER alias lists pointing to both outbound and
>archive, with no success. It seems I can either mail to everyone on the
>lists *OR* keep a copy of all incoming mail, but not both.

Probably what you want to do is add the line

	"mmdf//usr/mmdf/lists/bs-archive"

to the file /usr/mmdf/lists/blue-sky, and eliminate the
"blue-sky-archive" alias completely.

- David
From: tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL (Tom Coradeschi <tcora>)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: GALLIFREY.BU.EDU not accepting mail.
Date: 31 Aug 92 17:19:48 GMT
Organization: Electric Armts Div, US Army ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ

roberts@nimrod.wpd.sgi.com (roberts) writes:
>Host GALLIFREY.BU.EDU has not been accepting mail for weeks.  At present,
>I have over 100 mail messages bound for GALLIFREY.BU.EDU queued on my
>internet forwarder.  The only MX record for GALLIFREY.BU.EDU points to
>that host itself.  I cannot ping or otherwise contact GALLIFREY.BU.EDU.
>If GALLIFREY.BU.EDU is going to be down for extended periods of time, it
>would be good if an alternate, MX record were provided.  If that host has
>gone away altogether, the A and MX records for it should be removed from
>the DNS ASAP.

Check out the other DNS info on the host in question:


; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> GALLIFREY.BU.EDU any 
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY , status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr rd ra ; Ques: 1, Ans: 1, Auth: 3, Addit: 4
;; QUESTIONS: 
;;	GALLIFREY.BU.EDU, type = ANY, class = IN

;; ANSWERS:
GALLIFREY.BU.EDU.	359929	CNAME	CHEM.BU.EDU.

;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
BU.EDU.	172728	NS	BU.EDU.
BU.EDU.	172728	NS	NNSC.NSF.NET.
BU.EDU.	172728	NS	BU-IT.BU.EDU.

;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS:
BU.EDU.	172728	A	128.197.27.7
NNSC.NSF.NET.	172728	A	128.89.1.178
BU-IT.BU.EDU.	172728	A	128.197.20.40
BU-IT.BU.EDU.	172728	A	128.197.2.40

;; Sent 1 pkts, answer found in time: 390 msec 
;; FROM: claudius to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1
;; WHEN: Mon Aug 31 13:14:47 1992
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 34  rcvd: 183

I'd suggest contacting postmaster@bu.edu for further word on your problem.

PS: I can ping it from here:

:!ping -sv GALLIFREY.BU.EDU                   
PING CHEM.BU.EDU: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from CHEM.BU.EDU (128.197.30.18): icmp_seq=0. time=419. ms
64 bytes from CHEM.BU.EDU (128.197.30.18): icmp_seq=1. time=300. ms
64 bytes from CHEM.BU.EDU (128.197.30.18): icmp_seq=3. time=120. ms
64 bytes from CHEM.BU.EDU (128.197.30.18): icmp_seq=4. time=140. ms
64 bytes from CHEM.BU.EDU (128.197.30.18): icmp_seq=5. time=130. ms
^C
----CHEM.BU.EDU PING Statistics----
6 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 16% packet loss
round-trip (ms)  min/avg/max = 120/221/419

-- 
 
                tom coradeschi    <+>    tcora@pica.army.mil
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
From: khush@csskwh (Ken Hush)
Subject: Internet --------> AT&T Mail
Reply-To: khush@mot.com
Organization: MOTOROLA 
Distribution: comp.mail.misc
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:27:06 GMT


Does anyone either have a copy of the Internet Interconnect Addressing  
Guide, or can tell me how to send mail from the Internet to an AT&T Mail  
user, as opposed to an EasyLink user.

Please email responses to khush@mot.com. Thanks.
--
Ken Hush                                                                            
Computer Services, Applications Engineering              
Corporate Information Office  
Motorola                                       
1299, East Algonquin Road,                                                                      
Schaumburg, IL 60196
From: remcor@sci.kun.nl (Remco Rutten)
Subject: Re: Internet access in Frankfurt, Germany
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 07:21:25 GMT

In <zvbn3s=@lynx.unm.edu> cliff@geronimo.eece.unm.edu (Cliff Wood) writes:

>I will be in Germany for 6 months starting Sept. 1 and would like
>to find out if anyone knows how I can access internet so that I
>might keep up with my E-mail.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>Cliff


Cliff,

It might be possible. The Frankfurt University uses Internet-services.
You might contact Gerhard Leuck (e-mail: leuck@rbiffm.uucp).
Their domain is called Uni-Frankfurt.de .

Kind regards,

Remco Rutten                    e-mail Internet: r.rutten@uci.kun.nl
department networks
University of Nijmegen
Netherlands
From: clarke.stevens@gtri.gatech.edu (Clarke Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Library of Congres Mailserver
Date: 27 Aug 92 13:19:41 GMT
Followup-To: comp.mail.misc
Organization: GTRI/AERO

I am interested in what services are available via mailservers.  In
particular, I am looking for a database mailserver that could return the
results of a Library of Congress search.  Does such a thing exist?  What
about other libraries and databases?  Can I do a search similar to WAIS or
Gopher from some mailserver?  I know I can get files through mailservers,
but I don't know the addresses of many.  Is there a list somewhere of
mailserver resources?  I am mainly interested in Mac and PC files from a
file mailserver.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Clarke

------------------------------------------------------------------
J. Clarke Stevens               |  Georgia Tech Research Institute
clarke.stevens@gtri.gatech.edu  |  (404) 528-3254
From: nauen@WRAIR-EMH1.ARMY.MIL
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: What is SITA and can Internet talk to it ?
Date: 2 Sep 92 19:50:00 GMT

In <=tknavd@lynx.unm.edu> lawson@netsun.mdc.com (Jim Lawson) writes:

> A friend of mine in Irlenad told mee he is on the SITA e-mail network.
> Has anyone heard of that network ? Can we connect to it ?

I suspect that it is the Societe International de Telecommunications 
Aeronautiques, an international airline system, and that we cannot
connect to it.

Ric
From: smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Various subjects related to moving
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:54:23 GMT
Organization: Cal State Long Beach

I will soon be moving back to Japan. Related to this and email I have two
questions.

1) I have accounts on almost every commercial service available. However, AOL
is not available in Japan; CI$ is too damn expensive to access from Japan and
ditto for GEnie. MCI is only damn expensive and I would therefore like to route
all of my email to my MCI account until I get an account setup in Japan.
How do I set up a .forward file??

2) Does MCI mail have a gateway to Internet and if so what is the domain?

Thanks,

smittie
--
___________________________________________________________________________
GEnie, MCI, AOL:Smittie | If all of us were as smart as we think we are the
smittie@beach.csulb.edu |  current world problems would be yesterday's news.
________________________|___________________________________________________
Xref: sparky comp.mail.misc:2838 comp.os.vms:14287
From: marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Bob Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Callable VMS MAIL - Where's the Documentation?
Date: 28 Aug 92 14:41:31 GMT
Reply-To: marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California

In article <1992Aug26.125304.1@lib.haifa.ac.il>, jody@lib.haifa.ac.il (Yosef Branse) writes:
>Over a period of time I have seen postings that mention the callable interface
>for VMS MAIL. Can anyone tell me where the documentation is?  I promise, I've
>looked - we have the VMS documentation set for 5.0, with updates through 
>5.4xx. I fail to find any reference to callable MAIL in the master index, the
>MAIL manual, or any of the programming manuals (system routines, system
>services, run-time library).

Look in volume 3 of the Progamming set, "System Routines", AA-LA67B-TE. 
It's in the "Utililty Routines" manual. I know it's in the manual that 
came with VMS 5.4, and maybe even the VMS 5.2 manual.

=============================================================================
Bob Marshall                     \\     "It ain't age
Lockheed Missiles & Space Co.     \\     That makes me look this way
Sunnyvale, CA                      \\    It ain't the years, boys,
marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com\\   It's the miles"
"I tell the truth 'cept when I lie"  \\     - Chris LeDoux
=============================================================================
From: mike@pacsoft.com (Mike Stefanik)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: What is the format of a mailbox file?
Date: 29 Aug 92 22:22:27 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Pacific Software Group, Riverside, Ca.

In an article, sdm7g@aemsun.med.Virginia.EDU (Steven D. Majewski) writes:
>What is the format of a unix mailbox file and where can the 
>definition be found. ( I didn't see any pointers in the man
>page for 'mail'. )

Which mail system are you using?  There is the V7 mail format that
has "From " as the first line in the message header; the header and
body is plain text.  There is also MMDF which inserts four CTRL-A's
before and after each message, and there is MH in which each message
is a file, and the folder is a directory (this makes the most sense,
and is more in line with the UNIX philosophy, IMHO.)

The status of the message is determined by the 'Status:' line in
the message header.

-- 
Mike Stefanik  mike@pacsoft.com  ...!uunet!pacsoft!mike
Pacific Software Group, Riverside, CA
From: nauen@WRAIR-EMH1.ARMY.MIL
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: E-mail to/from X.400?
Date: 27 Aug 92 17:45:00 GMT

In <471@imp.diablery.10A.com> devil@diablery.10A.com (Gil Tene) writes:

> - What do I do to send e-mail from the internet to X.400 and back?

It's unlikely that _any_ X.400 gateway would accept mail from you which
was to be sent back to Internet.  With both sender and receiver on
Internet, they'd have no one to bill for services rendered.

> - Are there any well defined X.400 gateways out there?

Not sure what you mean by well-defined, but sprint.com, attmail.com,
mcimail.com, and cgnet.com are all working fairly well.  In Europe 
there are several gateways providing mail exchanger service to 
domain-style addresses which are designated for various X.400 systems.

> - Can gateways I see in the Inter-Network mail guide that use
>   X.400 addressing be used to gateway to ANY X.400 address worldwide,
>   or will they only work for X.400 addresses on their local networks?

Most often they will gateway only to addresses in their own administrative
domains (ADMDs), such as ATTMail, SprintMail, etc., which are not 
necessarily worldwide, but certainly can't be called local.  These
companies (AT&T, Sprint, MCI) often have agreements with others over
the exchange of mail, but such arrangements don't cover mail originating
on (or reaching them via) Internet, because of the payment problem, as
I mentioned above.  They are in business to make money; they don't 
provide service unless someone (sender, receiver, or other carrier) 
pays for it.

Ric