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From: LEICHTER-JERRY@YALE.ARPA.UUCP
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Date: Wed, 25-Feb-87 21:15:19 EST
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    Can anybody help. Say a user log's in and he gets the message that there
    is new mail. This is fine but I have a global login file which sets the
    terminal up (because we have some big teks) sets the dialog area ect.. bt
    esc codes.  Is there anyway in dcl to at a latter dat redisplay the
    initial message at login.  At the moment i have a delay at the begining of
    the login file so the user has a chance to look. Its a pain in the neck
    because if somebodys password has expired they dont notice. Ta.

The information about new mail is stored in the file SYS$SYSTEM:VMSMAIL.DAT;
have a look at SYS$EXAMPLES:MAILUAF.COM for an idea of the format.  You
would need to write a privileged (SYSPRV) program to read the file, however.

A quick hack that does the same thing - though unfortunately not as fast as
you might like - is to just include the lines:

	$ MAIL
	EXIT

in the command file at the appropriate point.  MAIL will start up, print its
usual "You have nnn messages" message, try to read from SYS$INPUT (the command
file), and promptly exit.

The password expiration information is in the UAF, and can be read with
$GETUAF.  Unfortunately, there is no DCL interface to $GETUAF - you'd have
to write a program to do it.
							-- Jerry
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