[HECnet] Zaphod down for a few days

[Paul Koning]

Coulnd't you use Sendmail to do this?   It seems to have all the
necessary gateway machinery.   It probably doesn't run on VMS but it
would on Ultrix, so that could be the gateway to the Mail11 protocol.

	paul

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From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On
Behalf Of Sampsa Laine
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 12:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [HECnet] Zaphod down for a few days

Got any documentation for this API?

Ideally I'd want to somehow "hook" into the MAIL application in the
same way as TCP/IP does, i.e. to send an smtp message you prepend SMTP
% to the recipient, I would love to be able to use an address like:

	FIDO%"John Q Public at 1:123/4.5"

How painful would this be to do (the hooking into the MAIL part and
parsing, I'll worry about the Fidonet encodings etc myself)?

Sampsa

On 1 Jul 2009, at 16:35, Bob Armstrong wrote:

How easy is it to get mail in and out of VMS mail using say DCL?

Sending is pretty easy, but reading it would require you to do some
parsing (which, of course, can be done).

But there is an API for VMS mail and it'd be easier to write a
program to
do it instead (unless you really want to prove that you can do it in
DCL)...

Bob