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- From: goathunter@wkuvx1.bitnet
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms,vmsnet.internals
- Subject: Here is the VAX/VMS mail file format
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.063646.1866@wkuvx1.bitnet>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 06:36:45 CDT
- Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
- Lines: 69
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- >I need to know if there is a way, on a Unix machine, to read/convert a
- >mail.mai file which was ftp'd from a VAX machine.
- [...]
- >With that in mind, what do you recommend? I see converting the file on
- >the receiving Unix machine as the best option, but I'll need either a
- >converter program/script, or information about the .mai file format so
- >I can write one myself. Any help will be greatly appreciated!!
- >
- I had to figure it all out by hand several years ago (with VMS
- v4.6---before callable mail arrived). When I finally had access to
- the source listings, I corrected my format description. It follows
- below. I'm 99% sure that it's still accurate for VMS v5.5. Note: this
- is the format of the MAIL.MAI file, not the VMSMAIL_PROFILE.DATA file.
-
- All information comes from MAILDEF.SDL in VMS V5.0 micro-fiche
-
- Mail message header record
-
- Quadword:
- DATIM Date/time message received
-
- (Date/times with high quadword 0 are reserved as info records)
- 1 LASTREAD Date/time of last read message
- 2 WASTENAME Name of wastebasket folder
- 3 FILEINFO File status information
- 4 MW Mailwatch info record
- 5 NEWMSG New message information
- Byte:
- FILKEYLEN Length of the filing key
- 39 bytes:
- FILEKEY Filing key
-
- Word:
- Flags:
- NEWMSG This is a new message
- REPLIED This message has been replied to
- SKIP1 Skip a bit
- EXTMSG Message text in external file
- EXTFNF External file not found
- SYSMSG Message text in system file
- EXTNSTD External foreign type message
- MARKED This message has been marked
- SKIP2 Skip recmode flag
- Byte
- FLAGSIZ Size of flag string if ASCII
- Longword
- FLAGVAL Value of /FLAG=
- Byte
- HDSPARE Spare byte to align DATID
- Quadword
- DATID Key ID of data record
-
- MISCDAT Start of variable data
-
- Format: type.w,size.w,data.w
-
- 0 From
- 1 To
- 2 Subject
- 3 CC
- 4 Mailwatch info
- 5 Number of records in message
- 6 Message is in external file; this is spec
- 7 Security class
-
- Hunter
- ------
- Hunter Goatley, VMS Systems Programmer, Western Kentucky University
- goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET, 502-745-5251
-