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- From: brunkhorst@mayo.edu (Geoff Brunkhorst)
- Subject: Re: Mail transferring
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.140556.12232@bmw.mayo.edu>
- Sender: newsman@bmw.mayo.edu (/home/bmw/usenet)
- Reply-To: brunkhorst@mayo.edu
- Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN. Campus
- References: <14gc24INN876@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 14:05:56 GMT
- Lines: 49
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- In article <14gc24INN876@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell)
- writes:
- >
- > In article <1992Jul21.060941.13650@cc.tut.fi> tomi@cc.tut.fi (Heinonen Tomi)
- writes:
- > >My own next is not connected to internet but I would like to read mail with
- it.
- > >I have transferred mails from my schools computer by modem. (simply copying
- > >/usr/spool/mail/username to my nexts /usr/spool/mail/username)
- > >Now I am wondering if there is any apps that could make the same
- automatically
- > >Or even better if it could send mails from my own next (using the address of
- > >schools machine).
- >[description of mailservice deleted
- > Outbound mail is not so convenient. I mail them to myself from Mail,
- >[...]
-
- Note this solution will not easily send nextmail, or put a subject
- line on the mail message...
-
- One thought is getting Kermit for the Next. It has a server/mail mode, which
- you connect to the remote next (or actually any system running the current
- C-Kermit), and escape back to the remote machine and at the kermit prompt
-
- mail filespec user@host.domain [address2...addressn]
-
- This sends mail via your account on the remote system, sans subject line.
-
- Since my modem costs are almost free (one plus about dial-back security), I
- typically first download my user/spool/mail/gbb to my home next, read the mail,
- use Edit to build the response.
-
- You get the mail transferred in error free mode, you don't have to
- go up and play with the remote host's command line mail tool, and while a
- long message is tranferring, you can be reading your next message.
-
- An obvious hack to sending NeXTmail is to create a dummy user on your
- local machine, use Mail to reply to that dummy user, and then edit the
- header, leaving the attachment header line in the body of the message.
- Then kermit-mail the file off to the remote user.
-
- - Geoff
- --
- "The only thing obsoleted by Windows 3.1 is poking myself in the
- eye with a pointed stick." - Gene Lee
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- Geoffrey Brunkhorst, RCF brunkhorst@Mayo.edu
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- Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN, 55905 USA fax (507) 284-5231
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