Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!usenet From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Sending Mail without an ethernet link Message-ID: Date: 1 May 91 17:12:27 GMT References: <#f1gsn+@rpi.edu> Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: eclipse.its.rpi.edu In article <#f1gsn+@rpi.edu> lasteve@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Steven D Borrelli) writes: > I have just got MailService, and it's a great program! > Thanks to Eric Celeste. I have one problem now. How do I > send NeXTmail back to the sender? My only link to the > internet world is a direct line to my school's mainframe. Hmm, I haven't tried this, but it seems to me that you should be able to fake things out. Create a dummy account on your NeXT, and send from your real account to the dummy account. Then poke around in the mail directory of that dummy account to find your message. Upload the text of the message as a file to the mainframe (using Kermit, for instance), and then send a message using that file as input. Sounds like a bit of work, but given some kind of script it might not be too onerous. I doubt I'll get around to trying anything like that today, but if no one else tries it I'll see if I can make it work sometime later this week. - - - - - - - - Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@rpi.edu or gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA