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From: NED@YMIR.BITNET (Ned Freed)
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Subject: RE: Sending mail from a remote DECnet task (Problems)
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Date: Wed, 29-Apr-87 16:48:00 EDT
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The reason that MAIL behaves peculiarly from a DECnet task is that MAIL
assumes it is acting as a network object when it runs within a network
job. It tries to open SYS$NET and talk its little NJE protocol on the
link. MAIL is not unique in this respect; a lot of utilities operate
in a different mode when run as a network process (e.g. PHONE).

Your idea of running MAIL as a subprocess will probably avoid this
difficulty.

                                Ned