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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: SENDing an entire MAIL FOLDER ?
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 06:12:33 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
- Lines: 44
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <1k2kohINNs62@gap.caltech.edu>
- References: <01GTXLEOVOIQ9GVN23@SNYBUFVA.BITNET>
- Reply-To: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
- NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu
-
- In article <01GTXLEOVOIQ9GVN23@SNYBUFVA.BITNET>, TARKA10@SNYBUFVA.BITNET (Mark Tarka) writes:
- >I CHECKED:
- >On-line help
- >On-line documentation
- >Local comp center staff
- >
- >Can I send all 30 messages in a single mail folder to a user at
- >another node, and if so, how?
- >
- >Extracting each individually, and appending them into a single file
- >would work, but I'd lose the directory information from that mail folder
- >(#, From, Date, Subject).
-
- Another vague question. What's wrong with:
- MAIL> SELECT FOLDER
- MAIL> EXTRACT/ALL/MAIL some_file
- MAIL> SEND/SUBJECT=whatever some_file
- To: some_address
-
- >I could FORWARD each message individually. But would the message
- >arriving at the new node contain my address in the "From" field, and the
- >date of forwarding in the "Date" field?
-
- Yes, it would. There's no way, short of forging mail, to include anything
- *BUT* your own address in the "From: " field. Have you taken even 2 seconds
- to *THINK* about what it is you're asking? If so, have you considered
- checking yourself into a home for the terminally stupid?
-
- >As a user, I can't offer much in the way of technical help, but if
- >anyone has a problem with their newmail count, I have a friend with a
- >program which will correct the difficulty.
-
- I see. You want to multiply your own stupidity. There's already a supported
- program to do just that. It's called MAIL. You simply:
- 1) Read all your new mail messages; then
- 2) MAIL> READ/NEW
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
-
- Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
-