Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!macman From: macman@ethz.UUCP (Danny Schwendener) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: vms mail Keywords: mail, extract Message-ID: <499@ethz.UUCP> Date: 6 Jul 88 09:50:42 GMT References: <371@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> Reply-To: macman@ethz.UUCP (Danny Schwendener) Organization: ETH Zuerich, Switzerland Lines: 17 In article <371@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> fsimmons@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (Frank Simmons) writes: > Is it possible to extract a message from the mailer without having to read > /display a portion or all of it? Yes it is. I have received a DCL command file which does just that. Can't dig out the exact code from memory, but it sets sys$output to NL:, then calls up mail and extracts just as many messages as indicated by the new mail count. -- Danny +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mail : Danny Schwendener, ETH Macintosh Support Center | | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-8092 Zuerich | | Bitnet : macman@czheth5a UUCP : {cernvax,mcvax}ethz!macman | | Ean : macman@ifi.ethz.ch Voice : yodel three times | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+