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From: aozer@next.com (Ali Ozer)
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Subject: Re: Reading NeXTMail from an ASCII dump...
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Date: 28 May 91 16:14:22 GMT
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In article <1991May28.110642.1503@leland.Stanford.EDU> David Hopper writes:
>A neophyte question for everyone:  When I copy my /usr/spool/mail/ file
>from the mainframe to OD and transplant it to my machine, what can I do
>with the uudecoded '.tar.xxx.name.attach' files so I can read them as 
>NeXTMail, or simply use them (if they happen to be a complete
>application)?

If your machine is also a NeXT, then you can put the /usr/spool/mail/youracct
file from the mainframe in /usr/spool/mail/homeacct on your home machine and
just use Mail.app to read it.

Ali