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From: erica@kong.gatech.edu (Erica Liebman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Next Attachments -- a helpful trick
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Date: 13 Dec 89 19:00:53 GMT
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Reply-To: erica@kong.UUCP (Erica Liebman)
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Boy have I found a way around the problem of
receiving next mail on non-next sites.  It's
simple, elegant and stupid.  I kicked myself
several times for not thinking of it sooner.

Here's the situation :
If you sneakernet a mail folder over to your
next, and then try to read out of it, you will
get errors along the lines of "Old format,
convert?" and then you convert and all
your "Next Attachment" lines get screwed up 
and you don't receive the articles you 
really needed for the first issue of your
newsletter -- assuming of course that every
one of you are trying to start a newsletter.
Ditto - you get corrupted voice mail resources,
et al.

Here's the solution :
1. sneakernet the mail folder over as before.
2. cat folder >> /usr/spool/mail/your_account
then read mail as usual.  NeXT does not
store the messages any differently than
any other machine -- it is only the folders/
archives that are different.  You can
now read the mail messages from the folder
as fresh "N"ew mail.

Here's the gripe :
You'd think that the Mailboxes reading old-format
mail from non-spool locations would recognize
their own "Next Attachments" line!

Let me know if this helps anyone.  I have
a silly desire to know if I was the only
one having these problems.

Erica
erica@cadnext5.gatech.edu - matters NeXT
erica@kong.gatech.edu - matters reality
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Erica J. Liebman 			Internet: erica@kong.gatech.edu
     Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
    "Grep foo whilst ye may, oh daemons of the spring" -- EJL