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- From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
- Subject: Re: how to read next mail, inquiry
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.064808.24875@csus.edu>
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- Organization: San Francisco State University
- References: <43362@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:48:08 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <43362@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> lliou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu
- (Lily Liou) writes:
- >Here's what happens: I log on to the mainframe at school by
- >using my modem under Terminal to dial up. I check my non-NeXT
- >mail and find that some nice person has written stuff to me
- >with a NeXTattachment. So how do I look at this object?
- >
- >I've tried saving it as a file, and moving it over to my next, but
- >when I open it, it's still garbage.
-
- Don't do that. :-) (But it doesn't hurt anything.)
-
- >I've tried pasting the garbagy looking part (from 'begin' to 'end'
- >statements) into an active.mbox in the hopes of fooling my NeXT
- >into opening it as NeXTmail, but it seems to know better :-(
-
- Big mistake here.
-
- >Am I just missing the obvious?
-
- Probably.
-
- Take the entire message (that's everything beginning with and
- including the "From " line) and append it to your incoming
- mailbox, which is normally /usr/spool/mail/username (where
- "username" is replaced with your login name). Then launch
- NeXT Mail. It doesn't matter how the message got there, as
- long as it's in the right place.
-
- Basically, you want to take all your NeXT Mail messages on the
- remote system and save them to a [UNIX mbox format] file. It's
- OK to save several messages into one file. Transfer that file
- to your NeXT (by whatever means), and do
-
- cat mailfile >>/usr/spool/mail/username
- ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
- whatever whatever
-
- -=EPS=-
-