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From: jasmerb@mist.cs.orst.edu (Bryce Jasmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: How do I read NeXTmail sent to other machines?
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Date: 9 Jun 90 21:37:08 GMT
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In article <17084@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
>It happens every time -- someone sends NeXTmail to my Vax, and I end
>up with a huge uuencoded glob.
>
>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?

Ah yes, I just did this the other night so let me explain while its still
fresh in my mind.

1) save the mail message to a file, name it something like foobar.tar.Z.uu
2) remove all the mail header garbage up to the line that looks something
   like "begin 0 .tar......"
3) edit the first line of the file to be "begin 600 foobar.tar.Z".
   The way it was will save a file that you wouldn't have permission to read
   and wouldn't normally see because it is a .file.
4) run the file through uudecode: "uudecode foobar.tar.Z.uu"
5) uncompress the resulting file: "uncompress foobar.tar.Z"
6) untar the uncompressed file: "tar xvf foobar.tar"

and now you will have some files that you can open up (they might be tiff,
rtf, or whatnot (maybe a directory if they send you a directory full of
files), and a file index.rtf that was the mail message that told where 
the attachment was and the text of the mail (I think)). 
You'll know what to do though when you see what files there are after
you untar.

Let me know if you have any problems,
Bryce Jasmer
jasmerb@cs.orst.edu