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From: MANAGER@SKIDMORE.BITNET (Leo Geoffrion)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: store & forward for VMS mail
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Date: 21 Dec 87 14:21:00 GMT
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Does anyone have recommendations for an inexpensive store & forward extension
for VMS Mail?  Since we have a homogeneous VAX/micros environment, we are
not really interested in the elaborate packages that do conversion to EMAIL
PROFS, or other foreign protocols.

As the number of small VAXen proliferate, the probability that a user may
have his/her unit offline increases.  I'd like a simple program that can
simply buffer mail while that node is off line and send it through when
it returns to service.

The SET FORWARD command of VMS MAIL fails because that user is then unable
to receive mail if it arrives while the forwarding address is offline.

Any suggestions -- or perhaps even a PD program or two??


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Leo D. Geoffrion                  BITNET:  MANAGER@SKIDMORE.BITNET
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Academic Computing
Skidmore College
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