Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!sdcsvax!ucbvax!VPFVM.BITNET!XRBEO From: XRBEO@VPFVM.BITNET (Bruce O'Neel) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: store & forward for VMS mail Message-ID: <8712241139.AA04796@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 23 Dec 87 23:39:09 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 24 Re: Store and forward for VMS mail. My only attempt at store and forward was to always use the editor to create my note and then I wrote a .com file to do the mail. It went something like this $ @sendmail This just copied the file to a unique name in a directory I'd set up for this purpose and put a few line header on it holding the name and subject. I also had a batch job sitting in the batch queue which every hour started up, went through this directory and tried to send the mail to the different people out there, sent me mail back if the message wasn't going to make it (say I got the wrong user id), deleted the scratch files if the mail made it, and then resubmitted itself to run in another hour. This wasn't elegant, and didn't always work (say the system crashed and I didn't resubmit the batch job) but it did make vax mail on a large decnet network less painfull. And no, I don't have the .com file but it wasn't large or difficult to write (I didn't try to be fancy). bruce on bitnet.