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From: pemurray@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Peter Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: How do I read NeXTmail sent to other machines?
Message-ID: <1531.266fd0da@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 8 Jun 90 21:22:49 GMT
References: <17084@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
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In article <17084@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
> So, my question: If someone sends NeXTmail (with fonts and files and
> such stuffed into it) to a machine unable to read it, how do I get it
> onto my NeXT in a form which the NeXT mailer can read?
> 
I ran into this problem earlier in the week.  Here's what you need to do...

1)  Forward the mail to your NeXT account.  (VMS Mail's FORWARD command)

2)  When you get on the NeXT, DO NOT Lanch Mail.app...you need to clean the
    file up, first.

3)  Launch Edit, and open the file /usr/spool/mail/UserId
    (where 'UserId' is your User ID)

4)  Find the mail message that your forwarded from your VMS account.  You
    will noticed groups of headers ('Received', 'Date', 'From', etc)
    separated by blank lines.  Somewhere in one of the groups there
    will be a line that begins with 'Next-Attachment'.  Do not delete
    this line.  Do delete any other header messages that are not in the first
    group.  In my mail file, I had 3 groups of header messages, with the
    'Next-Attachment's line being in the last group.

5)  Save the file.

6)  Launch Mail.app.  It should find the message, complete with attachment,
    now.


Using this method, the return address to the original sender is not saved, 
but this is the easiest way that I've found to read the mail.

E-mail or post if you have any questions or problems...

Peter
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