Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!apple!agate!ucbvax!THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM!nsb From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: messages, eatmail and other miscellany Message-ID: Date: 19 Nov 90 16:31:34 GMT References: <9011161944.AA26842@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 31 In general, mail gets automatically taken from /usr/spool/mail/xxx, and burst into separate files for each message. The separate files are stored in ~/Mailbox. From there, they are incorporated into your mail folders -- by default, they go into your "mali" folder, but a FLAMES program (.AMS.flames) can direct them elsewhere or respond to them automatically.) The "eatmail" program can be used to burst aport /usr/spool/mail format files into separate files as in a Mailbox directory. This is not needed for normal mail delivery, but the separate eatmail program is useful in certain circumstances (e.g. when your spool file is on another machine, and you just want to rsh a small program). In general, however, there are lots of ways to get mail fed into messages; you'll have to ask a more specific question to get more information, I'm afraid. Much of what you're looking for is probably buried in the help files. For example, to switch off multimedia for selected recipients, you can put certain lines in your .AMS_aliases file, e.g.: $forceformat Bill Cattey $forceformat wdc@athena.mit.edu $forcetrust @andrew.cmu.edu $forcetrust @andrew.cmu.edu> Type "help ms-aliases" for more information. For purging old messages, check out the CUI "epoch" command, in the CUI documentation. For other specific questions, if you can't find it in the documentation, feel free to ask... -- Nathaniel